Developing Critical Thinking Skills

Thinking critically — asking questions, evaluating information, and coming to unbiased conclusions — will be one of your greatest assets as a leader. This course on "Developing Critical Thinking Skills" will help you identify what skills you can practice to improve your critical thinking, as well as blind spots and types of biases to watch out for as you apply critical thinking to the events and situations around you. With stories and examples, this course shows you where you would see critical thinking in business decisions and strategy, and you'll come away with a better awareness of how to grow as a leader.

Critical thinking is an incredibly important skill to have as a leader making business decisions. Critical thinking looks past individual bias to knowledgeably evaluate the information given around an issue. This course walks you through how to develop critical thinking skills, including how to identify problems and sort through data, how to know what's relevant, and how to ask questions. It also illustrates how critical thinking can be applied to business situations, how it fosters good judgement, and helps you make the right decisions for your team members, customers, and clients. If you want to grow in your career, you'll need to make good, informed decisions — and critical thinking will be your foundation.