To test your mastery of this course, take and pass the online Final Exam, which is included in your purchase. As soon as you pass this exam, you’ll receive the Certificate for the Critical Thinking Course, which will be available to you on your DASHBOARD (My Certificates). Passing this Final Exam also counts toward earning your Certification in Conflict & Change Management with the Thomas-Kilmann Instrument, if you subsequently upgrade to our course collection: The Complete Program of All Our Courses.
Critical Thinking Skills for Organizations…
Learn how to manage complex problems and conflicts by first uncovering and then revising all the false assumptions being made about relevant stakeholders… and then earn our Certificate of Completion to affirm your critical thinking skills
All Videos in This Course Include
Closed Captions [CC] in English
How to Manage Complex Problems and Conflicts with Critical Thinking Skills and the Steps of Assumptional Analysis
In our 6-hour Critical Thinking Course (including a 98-page Course Manual), you’ll learn how to uncover the false assumptions behind your most cherished beliefs, which is based on the powerful method of Assumptional Analysis. Because there has been so much dramatic change in the world during the past few decades, most of us are unconsciously making assumptions about key stakeholders that ONCE might have been true, but are now clearly false.
By using the steps of assumptional analysis (in the second track of eight tracks of quantum transformation), you’ll be able to uncover and then revise your false assumptions, so your decisions and actions will now be based on today’s updated reality, not yesterday’s outdated fantasy.
RECORDED VIDEOS
take this online course on your laptop or desktop computer, or on your tablet or smartphone
90-DAY ACCESS
watch the course videos at your convenience: any day, any time, and as often as you like
COURSE MANUAL
provides a reduced image of every presentation slide with Dr. Kilmann’s additional insights
6 HOURS TOTAL
the average time for taking this online course, studying, and then passing the optional exam
Kilmann Diagnostics is dedicated to resolving conflict throughout the world, which is addressed in this online course by providing you with the deep knowledge and the practical tools for first surfacing the many hidden (usually false) assumptions about all key stakeholders and then revising the most important assumptions so they are totally in tune with today’s fast-paced, interconnected, global village. Based on those up-to-date assumptions, members will now be able to make the best decisions and take effective action on their most challenging conflicts and problems—because of their enhanced critical thinking skills. Be prepared to experience many eureka (aha) moments!
BENEFITS OF TAKING THIS COURSE ON
CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS FOR
ORGANIZATIONS
DOWNLOAD YOUR BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED COURSE MANUAL: This online course comes with a 98-page downloadable manual that includes an image of every presentation slide, Dr. Kilmann's personalized notes, reference material, and space for note taking.
See Sample Manual for Conflict Management Training and Change Management Training
LEARN THE VITAL ROLE OF ASSUMPTIONS IN ALL ASPECTS OF MANAGING CONFLICTS AND PROBLEMS: In a 6-hour recorded course, you'll hear Dr. Ralph Kilmann's crystal-clear voice explain how to surface and then revise the false assumptions behind your most cherished beliefs.
LEARN TWO DIFFERENT WAYS OF DETERMINING THE TRUTH OF WHAT YOU KNOW: You'll first learn two different ways to explore whether an assumption is true or false. The Lockean approach is based on achieving agreement. The Hegelian approach is based on magnifying disagreement. These two “inquiring systems” map onto the TKI Conflict Model, which reveals that each approach for discovering truth uses different conflict modes for managing agreement and disagreement among two or more people.
LEARN WHY THE MORE COMPLEX THE PROBLEM, THE MORE IMPORTANT IT IS TO HAVE TRUE, VALID ASSUMPTIONS: Dr. Kilmann then discusses why this kind of critical thinking is vital for resolving today's complex messes: Because there has been so much change in the world during the past few decades, most of us are unconsciously making assumptions about key stakeholders that once might have been true, but are now clearly false.
LEARN HOW TO USE THE PRACTICAL METHOD OF ASSUMPTIONAL ANALYSIS: By learning the method of assumptional analysis, however, you’ll be able to uncover and then revise your false assumptions, so your decisions and actions will now be based on today’s updated reality—which is the heart and soul of critical thinking skills.
PRACTICE USING ASSUMPTIONAL ANALYSIS ON A COMPLEX BUSINESS CASE: After learning the three stages of assumptional analysis (surfacing, classifying, and synthesizing assumptions), you'll have the opportunity to apply this method to a case study. Afterward, you'll be able to compare Dr. Kilmann's analysis to yours—which is a great learning opportunity to further develop your critical thinking skills.
PASS THE FINAL EXAM AND EARN A CERTIFICATE:
WHY TAKE THIS COURSE ON
CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
FOR ORGANIZATIONS?
This course provides you and your clients with the deep knowledge and practical tools for first surfacing the many hidden (usually false) assumptions about all key stakeholders and then revising the most important assumptions so they are in tune with today’s fast-paced, interconnected world. Based on those up-to-date assumptions, members will be able to make the best decisions and take the right action on their most challenging conflicts and problems. As such, this course is relevant to these OCCUPATIONAL IDENTITIES:
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The price for the 6-hour Critical Thinking Course is $400. If, at some later time, you’d like to upgrade to The Complete Program of all our online courses, you’ll receive full credit for this purchase price through our Upgrade Path.
When you complete your purchase on this website, you’ll have instant access to this online course for 90 days. During this access period, you can (1) log into your private account, (2) download the Course Manual, and (3) watch this recorded online course as often as you like… so you can further enhance your critical thinking skills.
Refund Policy: As stipulated in All Our Policies, since it isn’t feasible for you to return those intangible (electronic) course materials back to us once they’ve been placed in your private account, we do not provide any refunds—in whole or in part—for any of these individual purchases of our online courses.
To test your mastery of this course, take and pass the online Final Exam, which is included in your purchase. As soon as you pass this exam, you’ll receive the Certificate for the Critical Thinking Course, which will be available to you on your DASHBOARD (My Certificates). Passing this Final Exam also counts toward earning your Certification in Conflict & Change Management with the Thomas-Kilmann Instrument, if you subsequently upgrade to our course collection: The Complete Program of All Our Courses.
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Critical Thinking Course
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The price of the 6-hour Critical Thinking Course for 1 to 4 persons is $400 each. The price of this course for 5 or more persons is $325 each.
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Completing Your KD_Spreadsheet
After you’ve made your quantity purchase, be sure to download the KD_Spreadsheet for Creating Group Accounts and carefully follow the instructions.
For example, if you bought this course for 1 other person, fill out the spreadsheet for just that 1 person. If you as well as other persons will each be taking this online course, please make sure to also include YOUR information on the completed KD_Spreadsheet.
When you send your carefully completed KD_Spreadsheet to info@kilmanndiagnostics.com, please include the date when you would like us to import your spreadsheet into our website.
From that moment we import your spreadsheet, the one or more listed persons are automatically assigned this online course in their existing (or newly created) private account. At the same time we import your spreadsheet, our website also emails the listed persons their log in credentials and instructions for accessing this online course.
For the stipulated access period of 90 days, the participants in your group can then (1) log into their private account, (2) download the Course Manual, and (4) watch this recorded online course as often as they like… so they can further enhance their critical thinking skills.
Refund Policy: As stipulated in All Our Policies, since it isn’t feasible for your clients to return those intangible (electronic) course materials back to us after they were assigned to each client’s private account, once we have imported your spreadsheet, we do not provide any refunds—in whole or in part—for any of our online courses.
Blended Learning and Passing the Final Exam
To learn how the members of any work group can blend this online course with live discussions, we provide these detailed steps: Blended Learning for the Critical Thinking Course.
To ensure that your participants have learned all the relevant material in this course, you can require them to take and pass the Final Exam. As soon as they do so, they’ll receive the Certificate for the Critical Thinking Course, which will be available to them on their DASHBOARD (My Certificates).
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Critical Thinking Course – Group Purchase
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