Critical Thinking

Most workplace decisions fail before the meeting ends — not for lack of information, but because nobody checked the thinking: a claim was treated as evidence, an assumption went unnamed, or a fluent argument hid a broken step. This course teaches critical thinking as a workplace discipline. You will learn to separate claims from evidence and test both before you believe either, to surface the assumptions under any argument — including your own — and to map how an argument is built before you judge it. You will learn the reasoning traps that derail memos, meetings, and decisions as named patterns you can catch in the room, to judge sources by how they could know rather than how confidently they speak, to steelman the other side honestly, and to decide in advance what would change your mind. You will leave with a personal standard for thinking at work that you can state, follow, and defend.