A set of 7 courses:
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Cognitive barriers
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Cognitive Biases
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Logical fallacies
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Critical Thinking
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Art of question
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Debating Skills
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Influencing and Inspirations
Cognitive barriers
We will define 16 of the most common cognitive obstacles in this pathway. By understanding these obstacles and recognizing their characteristics, we can develop the skills to overcome and identify them in others. Reed more
Unmasking Your Mind: Understanding and Overcoming Cognitive Biases
this course discusses cognitive biases and their effects on your thinking and decision-making processes.
Key Topics:
- Understanding Cognitive Biases: Explore how cognitive biases can manipulate our reality and affect our decision-making.
- Common Cognitive Biases: Delve into numerous cognitive distortions, for instance: confirmation bias, availability heuristic, anchoring, etc.
- Identifying Cognitive Biases: Learn to identify cognitive biases within you and in other people too.
- Addressing Cognitive Biases: Discover techniques to counter these biases, leading to better and more objective judgments.
Module Activities:
- Interactive Quizzes: Examine your understanding of the concept of cognitive bias and its impact on perception.
- Real-World Examples: Assess the capacity of different cognitive biases in everyday life.
- Case Studies: Investigate the cases where people made decisions influenced by cognitive biases.
- Cognitive Games: Take part in some fun and engaging activities focused on identifying and combating cognitive biases.
By the end of this module, you'll have a deeper understanding of cognitive biases and the tools to overcome them.
Master the Art of Argumentation: Identifying and Avoiding Fallacies
During this module, you will investigate the sphere of logical fallacies and know how to detect and prevent them in your reasoning and that of other people.
Key Topics:
- Understanding Logical Fallacies: Their Definition and Use in Debates: Get the definition of logical fallacies and their implications on arguments.
- Common Fallacies: Extensive catalog of fallacies, from ad hominems to straw-manning and false analogies, and many more.
- Identifying Fallacies: Trainer’s ability to identify fallacies in his/her reasoning and that of others.
- Avoiding Fallacies: Avoiding fallacies in one's arguments and opposing fallacies made by other people with the use of appropriate techniques.
Module Activities:
- Interactive Quizzes: Attempt to test your knowledge of logical fallacies and whether they are used and to what effect.
- Real-World Examples: Examine actual speeches, debates, and everyday conversations for the presence of any fallacies.
- Practice Exercises: Try your hand at several situations doling out and detecting fallacies.
- Case Studies: Read case studies and find the logical errors in the arguments presented.
By the end of this module, you will be able to recognize and evade logical fallacies, enhance your arguments, and become a better communicator.
Master the Core Principles of Critical Thinking
In this module, you'll delve into the essential components of critical thinking and learn how to apply them effectively.
Key Topics:
- Arguments: Identify the structure plus the components of the argument.
- Assumptions: Be able to identify the assumptions in the reasoning and their effects.
- Deductions: Master the reasoning process from the general to the specific.
- Induction: Suppose how one can arrive at a broad generalization from narrow particulars.
- Inferences: Determine the conclusions that can be drawn from premises and previous arguments.
- Interpretation: Understand the relevance and implications of the experiences, events, and figures.
- Analysis: Decompose the information into relations and parts.
- Evaluation: Determine the validity of the arguments and claims made.
- Explanation: Provide a clear expression of your ideas and back them with appropriate support in the form of evidence.
- Reasoning: Collect appropriate evidence, evaluate options, and reach a sensible conclusion.
- Probabilistic and Statistical Justification: Introduce the relevant quantitative evidence and key statistics provisions.
- Assumptions: Identify implicit as well as explicit assumptions in the argument.
- Focus: Investigate both the fundamentals and the peripheries of the issues for more insight.
Module Activities:
- Practice Exercises: Ample practice in recognizing and analyzing arguments, assumptions, and inferences.
- Case Studies: Examine and evaluate actual situations to apply the principles of critical thinking.
- Debates: Engage in debates to practice forming and assessing arguments.
- Writing Assignments: Complete essays or reports where analysis is essential.
Rest assured, with the completion of this module, you will have a strong grounding in critical thinking which you will be able to use in different facets of your life.
Master the Art of Inquiry: The Power of Effective Questioning
Within this module, the necessity of posing potent and compelling inquiries will be examined along with their potential impact on the enhancement of one’s understanding, communication, and thinking abilities.
Key Topics:
- The Power of Questions: Knowing the right question to ask can make a big difference when it comes to understanding a concept or analyzing an issue.
- Socratic Questioning: Understand the art of asking questions the Socratic way, which encourages creativity and thought processes.
- Context and Questioning: Appreciate how various situations help in determining which types of questions to ask.
- Questioning Strategies: Create effective ways of thinking to generate and use questions.
- Types of Questions: Be able to classify questions as open, closed, or probing.
- Active Listening: Be equipped with adequate hearing skills for active listening to be able to reply to the stimulation appropriately.
- Nonverbal Communication: The influence of body movements and facial expressions should be appreciated when interrogating someone.
- Follow-up Questions: Help entails follow-up questions to broaden the discussion on a given issue.
- Evaluating Answers: Spot On How to Evaluate Answers Given and Where Necessary, Digs Deeper for Answers.
- Leadership and Questioning: Effects of Effective Questioning on Leadership Skills Development.
- Humble Questions: Appreciate the role of humility in asking questions.
Overcoming Challenges: There are difficulties in asking questions and ways to surmount these difficulties exist.
Module Activities:
- Practice Exercises: Exercise in constructing various kinds of questions and assessing their efficacy.
- Role-Playing: Take up roles to ask and respond to questions in specific situation scenarios.
- Case Studies: Specific examples, which show, how asking the right questions made a positive difference.
- Group Discussions: Form a group to engage in active question-and-answer sessions.
By the end of this module, you'll be a more effective questioner and communicator, able to gain deeper insights and understanding through the power of inquiry.
Master the Art of Persuasion and Argumentation
This lesson focuses on how to engage in debate and will provide you with the essential skills to express your ideas, influence others, and discuss constructively.
Key Topics:
- Fundamentals of Debate: Define the meaning and relevance of debate in everyday life.
- Debate Strategies: Understand ways to organize oneself before a debate, the delivery of points of view clearly, and the types of debates one can engage in.
- The Art of Persuasion: Learn how to effectively convince people with the help of information presented and its pleadings.
- Evaluating Arguments: Evaluate what has been argued in view of its pros and cons and how the opposition can be countered.
- Effective Communication: Carefully develop and incorporate the use of speech and the accompanying gestures for effective debating.
- Challenges in Debate: Recognize some of the difficulties that debaters tend to face and how to deal with them.
Module Activities:
- Practice Debates: There will be practice debates where you will demonstrate your skills and get marked.
- Argument Analysis: A study of case scenarios of debates and strategies that worked and those that did not.
- Mock Trials: Active involvement in trial situations for honing skills of argumentation and persuasion in matters of law.
- Group Discussions: Debrief in groups where the objectives are to practice arguing and learn from other people.
As the concluding part of the module, the participant will have honed their debating skills and developed the ability to make arguments convincingly and engage in discussions that will lead to productive results and counter-arguments from the opposition effectively.
Master the Art of Influence and Inspiration
The focus of this lesson will be understanding the social sciences underlying persuasion and how to motivate and promote change among people.
Key Topics:
- Definition of Influence: Meaning influence and its relevance in our day-to-day life and profession.
- Strategies for Influence: Learn the best techniques available that can help in influencing other people to change their behaviors.
- Problems of Influence: Understand many situations that inhibit presence engagement performance and how to avoid such problems.
- Developing Influence Skills: Improve your speaking, leadership, and soft skills.
- Techniques of Persuasion: Trusting other people’s ideals techniques of persuasion.
- Effective Communication: Able to instill change in other people using oral and body language.
- Building Relationships: Forge relationships to earn people’s trust and respect.
- Inspiration: Values and principles are crucial in motivating individuals to act.
- Success Stories: All inspiring stories begin with the same – how a person could impact others.
- Online Influence: How to get and engage an audience and influence them within the virtual world?
- Social Change: Learn how to use your influence to make a positive impact on society.
Module Activities:
- Role-Playing: Practice influencing others in simulated scenarios.
- Case Studies: Analyze examples of influential leaders and their strategies.
- Public Speaking: Develop your public speaking skills to effectively communicate your ideas.
- Group Projects: Collaborate with others to influence a group or community.
After concluding this module, you will have acquired the skills and knowledge necessary to persuade others, promote positive changes, and leave a legacy.