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Course Overview
In a world where artificial intelligence accelerates information, analysis, communication, and decision-making, the ability to think critically is more essential than ever. AI can help leaders generate ideas, summarize information, and explore possibilities quickly, but it cannot determine what is accurate, ethical, relevant, or wise. This workshop helps participants use critical insight to validate AI-assisted output, challenge assumptions, reduce bias, and apply sound human judgment to leadership decisions.
In this workshop, participants learn to use AI as a thinking partner while keeping critical thinking at the center of the process. Using the same four-section flow as Thinking with Critical Insight, participants explore how open-mindedness, analysis, and evaluation, validation and logic become crucial in human judgement. The course emphasizes practical leadership habits: ask better questions, organize information, test outputs, reduce bias where possible, and decide responsibly.
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This course will earn you 3.5 PDUs
Who Should Attend
This workshop is designed for anyone who does knowledge work and wants to get more done with less manual effort. No technical background is required. No prior AI experience is needed. If you have a recurring process that takes more time than it should, this session is for you.
Roles that benefit most include project coordinators, operations professionals, analysts, administrative professionals, team leads, and anyone who regularly produces written work, manages information, or coordinates across teams.
Course Objectives
- Apply the four major steps of critical thinking to AI-supported decisions and workflows
- Explain sources of human and AI-enabled bias and how to minimize them through objectivity, validation, and open-mindedness
- Evaluate, identify, and distinguish between relevant, irrelevant, unsupported, and AI-generated information
- Use curiosity and stronger questions to improve AI prompts, human reasoning, and final judgment
Course Outline
An Introduction to Modern Critical Thinking in the Age of AI
- The Challenges of Modern Thinking When AI Accelerates Information
- Why Critical Thinking Becomes More Important, Not Less Important
- Becoming Rational Thinkers in an AI-Supported Workplace
- Distinguishing Thinking, Critical Thinking, and AI-Assisted Thinking
- Open-Mindedness, Multiple Perspectives, and Prompted Perspectives
- Non-Linear Thinking with AI as a Thinking Partner
- Activities: Prompt, Perception, and Perspective; AI-Assisted Problem Exploration
Utilizing Analysis and Logic with AI as the Resource
- Four Steps to Utilizing Analysis and Logic
- Prompting as Questioning: Defining the Problem Before Using AI
- Asking the Right Questions of the Situation and the Output
- Organizing Human, Verified, and AI-Generated Information
- Evaluating Accuracy, Relevance, Completeness, Logic, and Risk
- Drawing Conclusions Based on Facts, Not Fluency
- Building Better Processes Instead of Fire-Fighting
- Activities: AI-Supported Recommendations by Thinking Style; AI-Specific Critical Thinking Challenges