Enhancing your critical thinking skills – micro course

Do you want to become a ‘better thinker’? Do you want to be more confident in your reasoning and be able to present well-reasoned, persuasive arguments to your stakeholders?

Financial professionals need to apply critical thinking at all stages of their career, but as your responsibilities increase, you are called on to assess and judge more complex issues and situations. Critical thinking is a skill that you can refine, and this micro course will help you do just that.

You’ll learn about the barriers that get in the way of critical thinking, and how to manage them. You’ll learn about a process that can help you bring rigor to your considerations, and tools you can apply to enhance the quality of your reasoning. After completing this micro course, you’ll be equipped to take a structured approach to thinking about complex issues in a range of ways, and you’ll have confidence that your judgements are well thought out and balanced.

Key benefits of attending this micro course include:

• Become a better-quality thinker by removing barriers and preparing your mindset
• Use a process to help you analyse complex issues in a methodical way, while weighing up competing priorities and perspective
• Learn about a range of critical thinking tools that can help you to foresee the consequences of different options and improve the quality of your decisions.

By completing this micro course, you’ll be able to:

• Use your influence to gain commitment to objectives or courses of action
• Adapt your influencing skills techniques to different stakeholders and professional situations
• Use techniques of influence ethically and preserve relationships with stakeholders.