Critical Thinking With Emotional Intelligence

Thinking about thinking and using emotional information in intelligent ways to engage others and make critical decisions.

How important is it to consider emotional intelligence in critical thinking?

Often thinking is considered separate from emotions, but good critical thinkers use emotional information to inform their thinking.

Underpinning critical thinking skills is your cognitive bias - your unconscious bias. Self-paced online programmes are widely regarded as one of the most accessible, and effective forms of building awareness about unconscious bias in the workplace.

Emotional intelligence has been identified as a fundamental leadership skill in the 2020's.

Using emotional information appropriately builds relations and supports critical thinking and problem solving. Decisions are confidently made that are ethical, authentic and empathetic.

Critical thinking refers to the ability to analyse information objectively and make a reasoned judgement. Good critical thinking involves the evaluation of sources, such as data, facts, observable phenomena, and research findings. Good critical thinking also considers unconscious bias and how this impacts upon logical thinking and systems thinking.

Critical thinking and problem solving abilities are among the most sought-after skills in almost every industry and workplace.

Often thinking is considered separate from emotions, but good critical thinkers use emotional intelligence to draw reasonable conclusions from a range of information sources determining what is useful and what isn’t.

Using emotional intelligence as a part of critical thinking means that the impact of this thinking is considered with empathy.

This course Critical Thinking with Emotional Intelligence provides deep insights into the essential leadership fundamentals of critical thinking and emotional intelligence, helping you to make data-driven decisions while understanding the implications of how emotions can impact those decisions and to work with these using empathy.

By engaging with the in-depth concepts and practical activities, the course will equip you with the necessary skills to effectively evaluate complex situations and use critical thinking when evaluating relationships between emotions, motivation, and engagement.

Completing the course (including the practical activities) will give you the understanding and capabilities to meet future requirements of leadership as markets and industries evolve over the next few years.

The course investigates unconscious bias to develop your awareness. Training in unconscious bias will not mean that you will not have biases. They will remain, by definition, unconscious. The course seeks to build your awareness of their existence and highlights when to look out for them.

Explore and recognise thinking styles in problem solving and decision making, the information in emotions, the role of emotions in learning, unconscious bias, thinking distortions and much, much more.

By the end of this course, you will have gained invaluable insights into the fundamentals of critical thinking and emotional intelligence, empowering you to become a more effective leader in any situation.