Critical Thinking

Today, almost anyone can open up a web browser and tap into a seemingly infinite stream of information—the only limiting factor being one’s own curiosity and imagination. Employees need the critical thinking skills to discern new challenges and opportunities from the flux and glut of instant-access information. These critical thinking skills have become a core competency in every workplace. AMA offers a number of solutions that take a practical approach to learning these vital skills:

• Decision Making: Being informed is essential in making decisive, high-impact decisions with clarity and confidence.
• Strategic Thinking: Uncover potential opportunities to anticipate, initiate, and manage change.
• Entrepreneurial Thinking: Learn to embrace risk and rejection instead of fearing them in order to rejuvenate your business.
• Information, Media and Technology: The future growth of every business depends on accessing and utilizing a global network of resources.

With the Internet growing by over 10 million new pages a day, it comes as no surprise that many employees simply feel overburdened by the sheer quantity of information out there. However, by taking away these skills from AMA training, your staff will find a way to break through to find the opportunities and say “Here’s what we need to do.”

First

Seminars:

• Critical Thinking #2533
  Explore the art of applying critical thinking skills in a business setting and with hands-on practice and feedback.
• Critical Thinking in Business #2208
  Discover new ways to break through mental barriers, ho-hum thinking and roadblocks.
• Managing Chaos #2261
  Learn fast, easy-to-use tools and techniques to manage unproductive confusion and disorder and transform chaos into controllable challenges.
• Communication and Interpersonal Skills for Technical Professionals #2576
  Your interpersonal and communication skills can spell the difference between success or failure at work.
• Getting Results Without Authority #2532
  Personal power, persuasion and negotiation—focus on the key elements of influencing others when there is a lack of authority.
• Communicating Up, Down and Across the Organization #2203
  Learn practical and adaptive strategies for upward, across, and downward communication to inform and influence others no matter where they fit in the organizational chart.

Articles:

• A Smarter Way to Brainstorm, by Carol Kinsey Goman, PhD
  Brainstorming is the most popular technique for producing lots of ideas and tapping into the creative mind.

Then

Seminars:

• Moving from an Operational Manager to a Strategic Leader #2242
  Learn how to anticipate, initiate, and manage change with strategic leading training.
• Fundamentals of Strategic Planning #2565 
  Understand the impact of strategy on your work and your organization’s success.
• Strategy Execution: Getting It Done #2209
  Take advantage of this multifaceted arsenal of resources to ensure that costly organizational or corporate strategy initiatives do succeed.

Polish with

Seminars:

• Building Agility and Resilience: Winning Strategies for Leaders #2546
  Enhance your ability to respond to complex and unpredictable business changes by mastering the competencies of agile leadership.
• Expanding Your Influence: Understanding the Psychology of Persuasion #2204
  Explore persuasive psychological triggers, and understand how they are used to build influence and earn trust.
• Leading with Emotional Intelligence #2133
  Improve your emotional intelligence skills to recognize and positively manage emotions in yourself, in others and in groups.

Articles:

• The Performance Paradox, by Stephen Shapiro
  “Surprisingly, one of the most effective solutions may be the most counter-intuitive: sometimes less effort, not more, yields optimal results.”