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Critical Thinking - How to Use It to Make Better Decisions

At work, you are bogged down by complaints from users and customers, unappreciated comments from bosses, and hurtful snipes from colleagues.

Outside work, you get bombarded with information on what lifestyle to follow, what investments to get into, and even what food to eat.

How do you know who and what to believe? How do you separate truths from myths, facts from opinions? How do you solve a problem when you don’t have all the information?

The answer lies in Critical Thinking.

With Critical Thinking, you will make faster and better decisions even when you don’t have all the facts. You can quickly get to the root of the problem where you can analyse alternatives effectively. You can even tell when salespeople are applying pressure to make you buy.

Learn how to use Critical Thinking skills to make better decisions. You will get hands-on practice using these skills to identify problems, analyse claims and arguments, and make better decisions.

Objective

By the end of the workshop, you will:

• Understand how Critical Thinking can improve your career and life.
• Be able to evaluate issues and arguments more objectively.
• Make better decisions and create better solutions.
• Become more effective at work.

Outline

What you will learn in this workshop:

• Understand Critical Thinking and how it works.
• Analyse arguments and claims that people tell you.
  
• Manage your personal biases and dealing with fallacies
• Use listening skills and questioning techniques to get to the truth.
• Use Critical Thinking to invest smartly and profitably.
• How to be a critical thinker.

Who should attend

Managers, executives and business professionals who want to improve their critical thinking skills so that they can make better decisions and create solutions more effectively.

Profile of Christian Chua

CSP, International Speaker and Coach, Keynote Speaker, Motivational Speaker, Agile Thinker, Body language

Christian Chua, is an International Class Business Motivator. He has helped thousands of individuals achieve success in their lives. With over 20 years of professional speaking experience, he incorporates good, clean humour in all his presentations. Coupled with cutting-edge content he has established himself as a choice speaker for local and international events.

Christian's career spans over a decade. He is well respected for his expertise in Sales Motivation, Human behavior transformation, Body Language, People Skills, Communication and Life Strategies. Christian has also authored seven successful books, including the hugely popular 'How to be a Success Magnet’, 'Making a Fortune while Sipping Coffee’ and 'The Referability Factor’. He has been featured in the media regularly, from the radio, television, and the Internet to magazines and newspapers. His articles have been published in The Straits Times and other periodicals.

Most notably, Christian has been accredited as a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) by the National Speakers’ Association of America. He is one of only a small number of Singaporeans ever to achieve this accreditation.

Christian uses his quick wit and humour and engages his audience easily.

He was the President of the Asia Professional Speakers Association (Singapore) 2008/09 and it was in this capacity that he represented Singapore in the Global Speakers Federation (GSF) meeting in New York.

In May 2015, he had the privilege of speaking to a royalty, the Princess of Brunei and subsequently had the privilege of having a Royal audience with Her majesty. In 2017, he had the Princess of Kedah in his audience. Very often in his audience are Ministers and C level executives.

Christian began his entrepreneurial journey at just 23, transforming a humble $2 start-up into a thriving million-dollar enterprise. Drawing from real-life experiences and sharp business instincts, he speaks not from theory or textbooks, but from hard-earned lessons that audiences truly need to hear.

Christian is an experienced trainer on change management. He conditions and helps people cope with the changes and new initiatives which are evolving.

• Christian Chua was invited to be the main Body Language and Speech Analyst during the USA Presidential Debate by Channel News Asia. It was beamed live to 28 regions to over 50million viewers.
• During the June 2018 Trump-Kim peace summit held in Singapore, he was approached by 7 media stations for his expert commentary. BBC world, Thomson Reuters, BBC Korea, Channel News Asia, Australian Channel 7, 90 Million Viewers
• 29 July 2018 at Philippines Broadcasting Company: 14 million audience.
• Christian Chua will be speaking at both prestigious Insurance industry event, Global MDRT Annual meeting in Miami Beach and in Sydney. Making him the first Singaporean Motivational speaker to achieve this feat.
• In March 2019, Christian was invited to Israel to do a facial profiling of the 4 main Prime Minister Candidates to over 100 CEOs of the IT industry.
• Christian has over 20 years of speaking and training experience and has conducted over 2000 paid assignments. Media exposure to over 50 million people. This experience guarantees that he is risk-free and your event will be an engaging and experiential one.

Here are some of his signature workshops...

• Mindshift – Changing paradigms
• Agile thinking
• Superlative Communication
• Human Behaviour change
• Raising the Wisdom Quotient
- Body Language and Deception Detection
- How to be a Success Magnet!
- Unleash your Natural Charisma
- Essential Influencing Skills
- Effective Sales & Presentation Skills