This course is designed for professionals who want to enhance their critical thinking, leadership, and negotiation skills. It is suitable for anyone who is involved in or interested in leading or negotiating with others, such as managers, supervisors, team leaders, project leaders, or aspiring leaders.

• Define critical thinking and strategy making and explain their importance and benefits
• Apply various critical thinking techniques to analyse information, generate ideas, and evaluate arguments
• Apply various strategy making techniques to define the vision, mission, goals, and actions of an organisation
• Identify and avoid the common pitfalls and biases that affect your thinking and strategy making
• Use appropriate tools and frameworks to support your thinking and strategy making process
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with others to make better strategic decisions

Day One:

Introduction to Critical Thinking and HRM

• What is critical thinking and why is it important?
• What is HRM and why is it important?
• How are critical thinking and HRM related?
• What are the benefits of critical thinking and HRM for professionals?
• What are the challenges of critical thinking and HRM in today’s business environment?
• What are the common pitfalls and biases that affect critical thinking and HRM?
• How can we overcome them?

Day Two:

Critical Thinking Techniques

• What are the elements of critical thinking?
• How can we use logic, arguments, evidence, and assumptions to analyse information?
• How can we use creative thinking to generate new ideas and perspectives?
• How can we use systems thinking to understand the big picture and the interrelationships among components?
• How can we use root cause analysis to identify the underlying causes of problems?

Day Three:

HRM Techniques

• What are the stages of HRM?
• How can we plan the human resources of an organisation by analysing the current situation, forecasting the future needs, and setting the objectives?
• How can we organise the human resources of an organisation by designing the structure, roles, and responsibilities?
• How can we lead the human resources of an organisation by recruiting, selecting, training, developing, motivating, and rewarding the employees?
• How can we control the human resources of an organisation by monitoring, evaluating, and improving the performance, quality, and satisfaction of the employees?

Day Four:

Tools and Frameworks for Critical Thinking and HRM

• What are some of the tools and frameworks that can help us with critical thinking and HRM?
• How can we use SWOT analysis to assess the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of a situation or solution?
• How can we use PESTLE analysis to examine the political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental factors that affect a situation or solution?
• How can we use Porter’s five forces analysis to evaluate the competitive forces in an industry or market?
• How can we use SMART criteria to set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound objectives or goals?

Day Five:

Communication and Collaboration for Critical Thinking and HRM

• Why is communication important for critical thinking and HRM?
• What are the principles of effective communication for critical thinking and HRM?
• How can we communicate clearly, concisely, confidently, convincingly, and courteously with different audiences?
• How can we use various communication methods (e.g., written reports, oral presentations) to convey our findings or proposals?
• How can we use feedback to improve our communication skills?
• Why is collaboration important for critical thinking and HRM?
• How can we work with others to solve complex problems effectively?

To enhance learning and practical application of concepts, the training course will use a combination of interactive lectures, case studies, group discussions, practical exercises, and real-world examples. Participants will also get the chance to collaborate on group projects and create action plans adapted to the needs of their respective organizations.