Course description
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.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who This Course is For
This course is for anyone interested in growing and developing their critical thinking and emotional intelligence skills.
Critical thinking is often confined to systems thinking, but to be an effective critical thinker involves understanding how emotions can help and hinder thinking processes. This course explores the connection between critical thinking skills and emotional intelligence skills considering how they can be applied to strategic thinking skills in pragmatic and applicable ways. Combining Critical Thinking With Emotional Intelligence makes for a powerful combination.
- Anyone keen to develop their thinking skills.
- Anyone who is interested in a deeper understanding of why emotional intelligence is a key component of critical thinking.
- Anyone who wants to build upon their understanding of themselves and how to work better with other people.
- Anyone with an interest in more information about the use and application of emotional intelligence with a business focus.
Requirements
The course requires a basic understanding of emotional intelligence with a desire to understand more about applying emotional intelligence.
- A keenness to understand how to become a critical thinker in an emotionally intelligent way.
- An interest in learning more about critical thinking as a skill within business.
- A willingness to complete the practical activities to grow and develop their critical thinking and emotional intelligence skills.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What You Will Learn
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.
- Describe how emotional intelligence and critical thinking work together.
- Differentiate between the two thinking systems and their impact on your emotional intelligence.
- Identify with unconscious bias and thinking distortions and recognise how they influence thinking.
- Determine ways that you can develop and improve your critical thinking and your emotional intelligence skills.
Training Course Content
- Introduction to the Course
- Practical Activity: Reflecting About This Course
- Decisions, Decisions! Critical Thinking, Emotional Intelligence and Decisions
- Thinking About Thinking
- Unconscious Bias
- Practical Activity: Exploring your Unconscious Bias
- Thoughtless Thinking - Thinking Distortions and Cognitive Biases
- Critical Thinking and Active Listening
- Developing Critical Thinking With Emotional Intelligence
- Practical Activity: Exercises in Critical Thinking
- Applying Emotional Intelligence Quiz
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Ei4Change is an innovative, award winning company specialising in providing online self-paced courses based on emotional intelligence. Our courses are designed to help individuals and teams increase their performance through better decision-making and stronger, more effective relationships through the application...