Critical Thinking Skills for Government

Critical thinking as a key priority in the APS

- How critical thinking aligns to you and the APS

- Identify and develop the mindsets and skills of effective critical thinkers

- Apply critical thinking capabilities to your role

Mitigate thought processes that reduce critical thinking

- Identify and reduce the negative impacts of cognitive bias

- Manage brain fatigue to overcome barriers to critical thinking 

- Apply empathy to better understand problems, avoid acting on assumptions, and improve decision-making

Unpack critical thinking techniques

- Cognitive principles, tools and strategies essential to critical thinking

- Understand the different ways people process information – tools to adapt to increase your influence

- Define a problem systematically to expose gaps and be more precise in identifying the root cause

Critical and creative thinking for problem solving 

- Apply whole brain thinking to encourage thinking outside the box

- Practice creative problem solving techniques

- Combine creative and critical thinking to form partnerships, generate new ideas, and deliver solutions