Critical thinking improves decision-making workshop

Critical thinking skills have advantages in all areas of your organisation. Such skills improve communication, creativity and the ability to solve problems. In the workplace, critical thinking allows you to connect ideas, analyse arguments, identify shortcomings, and solve complicated problems. The workplace is full of scenarios which require teams and individuals to approach difficult problems and solve them in different ways.

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify their creative thinking styles, as well as areas of strengths and where improvements can be made.
  • Use the critical thinking process to construct or examine arguments.
  • Improve basic critical thinking abilities and apply logical approaches and creative thinking strategies.

1. Establish the role of critical thinking in the workplace

  • What is critical thinking?
  • Characteristics of critical thinking
  • 7 Steps of Critical Thinking

2. Lead critical thinking process

  • Critical Thinking Techniques - Diverging and converging thinking, SWOT Analysis, De Bono's Six Thinking Hats
    • What is your Thinking Hat?
    • Thinking Hat scenario
  • Problem Solving Techniques - Brainstorming, Mind Mapping, Fishbone, 5 Whys, Starbursting, etc
    • Group Activity using of the techniques (per group)
  • Decision-Making Techniques - Pro's and Con's. SPADE Model, 6 Step Decision-making process
    • Workplace Scenario Activity using the 6 Step Decision-making process

3. Applying Critical Thinking to the Workplace

4. Individual Action Plan

Presenter

Tanya Finnie is a global cultural strategist who works with middle managers to executives, to build the situational awareness and cultural intelligence (CQ). She assists organisations in growing their human capital and leveraging their diversity.

She is a multi-award winner, TEDx speaker, Global Goodwill Ambassador and has been voted as one of Perth's top 100 Small Business Influencers. She has sat on various boards, including the United Nations, is a Patron for Roots TV - a not-for-profit supporting youth at risk to become media producers; mentor to CALD communities on boards via the Officer of Multicultural Interests (OMI) and long time mentor of postgrad students from UWA.

Tanya creates customer executive development programs, specifically focused on high-performance culture, to provide individuals and organisations with creative solutions and a competitive advantage. Whether a workplace is experiencing a diversity of culture, gender differences, generational challenges or merely language barriers between departments, Tanya is the right person to call. She has entertaining keynotes from her life as a game ranger and having lived with various African communities and is passionate about human behaviour.

She is currently working on a PhD looking at the impact on the workforce if we increase the cultural intelligence of Engineers with research based on mental health and productivity of technical managers. Her work has a strong focus on diversity and inclusion, body language, and motivation, all of which ultimately increase confidence and grow stronger, more innovative, and collaborative teams and leaders.

 

Dates

Fri 23 October 2026

Time

08.30am - 4.30pm

Venue

LG Professionals WA
Suite 8b, Level 1
180 Scarborough Beach Road
Mount Hawthorn WA 6016
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Cost

$810 Member | Affiliate | Young Professional
$1015 Non-Member 

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