Introduction

Welcome to develop critical thinking in others. As a leader/ manager, you must recognise the value of advanced cognitive skills and performance in your work team. Teams can only become autonomous and develop solutions of great insight and innovation for your business through critical thought and creative reasoning. As you progress through the module, you will learn the following fundamental skills and knowledge you will need to apply when developing critical thinking in others.

• The relationship and nature, both critical and creative thoughts.
• Attributes of critical thinkers and the benefit of encouraging critical thinking in the workplace.
• Tools and working models to help you understand the progression of cognitive performance.
• Basic recall skills for advanced analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.
• Encourage and facilitate the upward progress of your team to a higher level of critical and creative thought.
• Common barriers to critical thinking.
• Critical thinking phases and roadmap within the workplace.
• Critical thinking roadmap- which you can apply to determine where your team members are in their critical thinking evolution.