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Overview

When you're facing conflicting information, tight deadlines, and high-stakes decisions, how do you ensure you're thinking clearly? Critical Thinking in Today’s Workplace strengthens your analytical and reasoning skills through hands-on, scenario-based learning. In this engaging two-day in-person course, you'll explore what critical thinking and metacognition are, identify your cognitive biases and blind spots, learn to rewire unproductive thinking patterns, and apply ethical reasoning to complex workplace challenges. Through interactive exercises and game-based learning, you'll build your own Critical Thinking Playbook filled with practical tools and frameworks for immediate use in real workplace situations.

By the end of this course, you'll have the mental agility to cut through conflicting information, spot manipulation, and make sound decisions under pressure. You'll leave with proven strategies for managing crisis situations, navigating ethical dilemmas, and building the professional credibility that comes from clear, logical thinking.

This course is ideal if you:

  • need stronger decision-making tools to lead people, solve problems, or grow a business
  • bring leadership experience from another country and need to align with Canadian workplace expectations
  • want to enhance your professional credibility and competitive advantage by thinking more clearly, critically, and ethically
  • are a skilled trades or technical professional worker stepping into planning, coordination, or leadership roles.

Upon successful completion of this course, you’ll be able to:

  • analyze the key components of critical thinking, critical thinking skills, metacognition, and truth in workplace contexts
  • apply critical thinking strategies and metacognitive skills to analyze complex workplace problems
  • examine your thinking processes to identify biases, fallacies, and impediments to critical thinking
  • use ethics, morality, logic, and evidence to reason more effectively
  • develop personalized metacognitive and critical thinking strategies, techniques, tools and tactics to reason more efficiently
  • integrate various metacognitive and reasoning models and frameworks to solve emergent workplace challenges.

To request a course outline, contact ConEdAdvising@sait.ca.

If you're certified by a professional association, this course may qualify for continuing professional development (CPD) hours to help maintain your certifications/designations. Please check with your association to confirm eligibility.

Upcoming dates

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Registration closes seven days before the start date for on-campus, online scheduled, and blended courses, and one day before the start date for online self-paced courses.

After you've completed this course

Upon successful completion of this course, you'll be able to self-print a proof of completion document from your Continuing Education student account.

Costs

Textbook and supplies

Included in the purchase of this course, you’ll receive:

  • Learning materials/hand-outs distributed in class
  • Course curriculum accessible online in Brightspace (D2L)

Technology

For any coursework completed outside of classroom time, you’ll need:

Note: Although not required, we recommend bringing your laptop to class.

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Financial support

Financial opportunities are available to help pay for your course fees. Learn more about how to reduce your education or training costs with available awards, bursaries, loans and grants including the Canada Alberta Job Grant. 

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Applicable certificates

This course applies to the following certificate programs:

Certificate Certificate of Achievement

Train your team

Interested in group training opportunities for this course? Tell us about your organization's needs, and one of our training consultants will contact you within one business day.

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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.

We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.

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