Critical Thinking with Emotional Intelligence

Description

Thinking about thinking and using emotional information in intelligent ways to engage others and make critical decisions.

2.5 Hours 52 Lessons 7 PDFs 3 Interactive Quizzes

What You Will Learn

How important is it to consider emotional intelligence in critical thinking?

Often thinking is considered separate from emotions, but good critical thinkers use emotional information to inform their thinking.

Underpinning critical thinking skills is your cognitive bias - your unconscious bias. Self-paced online programmes are widely regarded as one of the most accessible, and effective forms of building awareness about unconscious bias in the workplace.

The course investigates unconscious bias to develop your awareness. Training in unconscious bias will not mean that you will not have biases. They will remain, by definition, unconscious. The course seeks to build your awareness of their existence and highlights when to look out for them. 

Describe how emotional intelligence and critical thinking work together.Differentiate between the two thinking systems and their impact on your emotional intelligence.Identify with unconscious bias and thinking distortions and recognise how they influence thinking.Determine ways that you can develop and improve your critical thinking and your emotional intelligence skills.

Description

Emotional intelligence has been identified as a fundamental leadership skill in the 2020's.

Using emotional information appropriately builds relations and supports critical thinking and problem solving. Decisions are confidently made that are ethical, authentic and empathetic.

Critical thinking refers to the ability to analyse information objectively and make a reasoned judgement. Good critical thinking involves the evaluation of sources, such as data, facts, observable phenomena, and research findings. Good critical thinking also considers unconscious bias and how this impacts upon logical thinking and systems thinking. 

Critical thinking and problem solving abilities are among the most sought-after skills in almost every industry and workplace.

Often thinking is considered separate from emotions, but good critical thinkers use emotional intelligence to draw reasonable conclusions from a range of information sources determining what is useful and what isn’t.

Using emotional intelligence as a part of critical thinking means that the impact of this thinking is considered with empathy.

Completing the course (including the practical activities) will give you the understanding and capabilities to meet future requirements of leadership as markets and industries evolve over the next few years.

Explore and recognise thinking styles in problem solving and decision making, the information in emotions, the role of emotions in learning, unconscious bias, thinking distortions and much, much more. 

Who This Course is For

This course is for anyone interested in growing and developing their critical thinking and emotional intelligence skills.

Critical thinking is often confined to systems thinking, but to be an effective critical thinker involves understanding how emotions can help and hinder thinking processes. This course explores the connection between critical thinking skills and emotional intelligence skills considering how they can be applied to strategic thinking skills in pragmatic and applicable ways. Combining critical thinking with emotional intelligence makes for a powerful combination.

Although the course is based on scientific research, it does not go into detail around the research. We explore the concepts in a straightforward, pragmatic manner to understand what they mean and how they be applied in the workplace.

Requirements

This is not an introductory course on emotional intelligence. This course explores emotional intelligence at a deeper level exploring its application to critical thinking.

The course requires a basic understanding of emotional intelligence with a desire to understand more about applying emotional intelligence.

Instructor

Robin Hills

Emotional Intelligence Trainer, Coach and Facilitator

Hi there, my name is Robin Hills and I’m grateful to you for checking out my courses.

If you’re interested in learning about emotional intelligence, I’m here to assure you that you’re in the right place, as I don’t train in any other topic.

With over 40 years’ experience in business, my courses will help you achieve your potential in the workplace - and beyond.

All of the courses incorporate the latest research into emotional intelligence, positive psychology and neuroscience.

Over the years I’ve built an international reputation having delivered workshops and spoken at emotional intelligence conferences all over the world from the United States, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

I am committed to your success and will go the extra mile to ensure that you achieve the outcomes you are looking for in developing your emotional intelligence.

Considering all this, you can be assured you’re in the right place to learn everything you want/need to about emotional intelligence.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.