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Critical Thinking and Problem Solving for Effective Decision-Making – 1 Day Online Workshop (PV233)

An Essential Competency in Today’s Workplace

To register please scroll down to the Register Online section and begin by selecting your organization’s billing province (for taxation calculation).

Mastering critical thinking and problem-solving skills can help you make better decisions or recommendations – an essential competency in today’s knowledge workplaces. Critical thinking helps you to examine and improve thought processes, ask the right questions, challenge assumptions and consider varying viewpoints. Effective problem-solving helps you to properly identify and systematically work through a problem in a comprehensive manner, ensuring clarity when it comes time to make decisions or recommendations.

This course will demonstrate how critical thinking, problem-solving and decision-making work optimally together, and will provide hands-on practice with tools that you can apply to your everyday workday tasks, big or small.

Note: This course is available as a stand-alone workshop, or you can enhance your learning by taking the companion workshop, Creativity and Innovation for the Workplace (P232).

This is a one-day virtual live workshop.

Space is still available for all course dates listed, unless otherwise noted.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this virtual workshop, you will be able to:

    • Define critical thinking and identify your critical thinking styles
    • Work through the critical thinking process to build, analyze and evaluate varying viewpoints
    • Improve key critical thinking skills, including active listening and questioning
    • Analyze context and information to clearly understand and identify a problem
    • Apply problem solving steps and tools
    • Identify appropriate solutions using specific approaches
    • Select the best technique for making decisions
    • Avoid common decision-making mistakes


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Workshop Topics

Maximizing the Power of Your Brain

  • Critical thinking and problem-solving: the key to effective decision making
  • The Iceberg Principle and the Understanding-Resolution Ratio

Critical Thinking

  • Definition of a Critical Thinker
  • Critical thinking behaviours: active listening, probing, Empty Your Bucket
  • Identify and evaluate issues and viewpoints
  • The 3 C’s: context, credibility and consistency
  • Critical thinking worksheet – practice it!

Problem Solving

  • The problem-solving process – various models
  • Obstacles and counterproductive approaches
  • Problem-solving techniques for groups and individuals
  • Applying a problem-solving model to a workplace scenario

Decision Making

  • Individual and collective decision making traps
  • How to choose: criteria, goals and vision-based decision-making
  • Individual and group decision-making tools and techniques
  • Decision-making – practical application to a workplace scenario

Register Online

To begin please select your organization's billing address province from the drop down list. (Note: If you are not with an organization, or you are registering personally, please select your own mailing address province.) If you are from out of Canada, please select ‘Out of Canada’ in the drop down.

Once you register the first attendee, you’ll have the ability to add additional attendees or purchase other workshops.

Details Price Qty
Online Workshop - June 20, 2023 [TXON]show details +$672.35 (CAD)*  
Online Workshop - June 20, 2023 [TXQC]show details +$684.07 (CAD)  
Online Workshop - June 20, 2023 [TX5%]show details +$624.75 (CAD)  
Online Workshop - June 20, 2023 [TX15%]show details +$684.25 (CAD)  
Online Workshop - June 20, 2023 [TX-NoTax]show details +$595.00 (CAD)  
Online Workshop - September 19, 2023 [TXON]show details +$672.35 (CAD)*  
Online Workshop - September 19, 2023 [TXQC]show details +$684.07 (CAD)  
Online Workshop - September 19, 2023 [TX5%]show details +$624.75 (CAD)  
Online Workshop - September 19, 2023 [TX15%]show details +$684.25 (CAD)  
Online Workshop - September 19, 2023 [TX-NoTax]show details +$595.00 (CAD)  
Online Workshop - December 12, 2023 [TXON]show details +$672.35 (CAD)*  
Online Workshop - December 12, 2023 [TXQC]show details +$684.07 (CAD)  
Online Workshop - December 12, 2023 [TX5%]show details +$624.75 (CAD)  
Online Workshop - December 12, 2023 [TX15%]show details +$684.25 (CAD)  
Online Workshop - December 12, 2023 [TX-NoTax]show details +$595.00 (CAD)  

* price includes taxes



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Who Should Attend This Course?

Anyone who is required to problem solve on the job or make important project, department or organizational decisions or recommendations.

Does This Course Address Your Competency Development Needs?

This training workshop addresses:

• Achievement / Results Oriented
• Adaptability / Flexibility
• Analytical Thinking
• Change Management / Leadership
• Creative Thinking
• Decision Making / Decisiveness
• Engagement and Motivation
• Impact / Influence
• Innovation and Initiative
• Leadership
• Problem Solving
• Self Confidence / Self Esteem
• Strategic Thinking
• Teamwork and Cooperation
• Working with Others