Manipulation Identification and Critical Thinking in Business

When do we recommend training “Manipulation Identification and Critical Thinking in Business”?

• Employees’ reasoning skills should be improved in order to recognize and avoid manipulation attempts
• It is necessary to promote employee ability to critically evaluate information and proposals, in order to choose more suitable business solutions and operational strategy
• Organization wants to improve employee resilience against misleading information and manipulative content

Topics included in the training:

• What is critical thinking in a business context, what does it involve, how does it manifest itself, how can it be promoted?
• What limitations of information perception do all people have and how to overcome those?
• What is manipulation, how to recognize it?
• How can argumentation skills help in different business situations?
• How to create a dialogue at different company levels when it is necessary to get a diversity of opinions and choose the best strategy?

What are the benefits for the training participants?

• The ability to recognize attempts of manipulation and the use of deceptive or manipulative reasoning
• Understanding of human perception errors and strategies for overcoming them
• The ability to create a dialogue that is focused on creating results and unique solutions
• The ability to make better decisions

What are the benefits for the company?

• A team that can evaluate the quality of information important to the business and is able to recognize manipulation
• Employees who will be able to constructively assess contradictory issues
• Employees who are open to different ideas, who know how to express a constructive opinion, receive and evaluate information