Critical Thinking with Emotional Intelligence
Thinking about thinking and using emotional information in intelligent ways to engage others and make critical decisions
Often thinking is considered separate from emotions, but good critical thinkers use emotional information to inform their thinking.
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
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.
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.
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.
This is not an introductory course on emotional intelligence. There are many courses by a range of good instructors that explain the some of the fundamental basics of emotional intelligence. This course explores emotional intelligence at a deeper level exploring its application to critical thinking.
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.
Introduction to Critical Thinking with Emotional Intelligence
Critical Thinking with Emotional Intelligence - Learning Outcomes
Defining Emotional Intelligence and how Critical Thinking was Involved
Thinking About Thinking
Speaking in Emotionally Intelligent Ways
Reflecting about this Course
Critical Thinking and Criticism
Thinking and the 4 Styles of Decision Making
Thinking and Decision Making - Directive
Thinking and Decision Making - Behavioural
Thinking and Decision Making - Conceptual
Thinking and Decision Making - Analytical
Personality and Emotional Intelligence in Decision Making
Critically Thinking About The Way You Use Your Emotional Intelligence
Exploring the Concept of Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking and Emotional Intelligence
What Thinking is all About
The Myths about Left Brain and Right Brain Thinking
Thinking Capabilities
The Two Thinking Systems - Fast and Slow
Improving Critical Thinking
The Role of Emotions in Learning
Values and Bias
Investigating Unconscious Bias
Measuring Unconscious Bias
Working with your Unconscious Bias
Thoughtless Thinking Introduction
Always Being Right and Jumping to Conclusions
Some Common Fallacies
Some Common Generalisations
Expectation Biases
Distortions Influenced by Emotion
Critical Distortions Around Thinking
Dealing with Cognitive Biases and Thinking Distortions