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Critical Thinking Skills

Researchers, analysts and writers are constantly thinking of different ways to bring in better content and write in a more persuasive way for their work. However, they are usually hampered by a lack of conviction because they do not allow themselves the time and space for some critical thinking before embarking on a project or a mission.

Critical Thinking, unlike creative thinking, operates on ground realities, including opportunities and constraints, such that recommendations and solutions are practical and prudent.

Let DR SUNNY GOH bring you through a systematic eight-step way in building strong critical thinking skills from conception to implementation.

Outline

PURPOSE

• Goal, objective

QUESTION AT ISSUE

• Problem, issue

INFORMATION

• Data, facts, observations, experiences

INTERPRETATION AND INFERENCES

• Conclusions, solutions

CONCEPTS

• Theories, definitions, axioms, laws, principles, models

ASSUMPTIONS

• Presupposition, taken for granted

IMPLICATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES

• Thought, Implication, Action

POINT OF VIEW

• Frame of reference, perspective, orientation

Who should attend

All executives who want to improve their thinking and writing skills, as well as their decisionmaking and solutioning.

Testimonials

“Problem-solving is a hassle for us busy executives – Sunny uses critical thinking techniques to make the process easier and more complete.”
– Chapman International (Oct 2018)

“I half expect the course to be boring, and the other half to be difficult. Sunny made both ends meaningful.”
– PA (June 2017)

Profile of Dr. Sunny Goh

Dr Sunny Goh is a Trainer of Trainers (TOT) and has taught many writing coaches to teach writing programmes he has designed for government servants and private sector officers. He was head of the International directorate in Mindef's Defence Policy Office, where he has written Cab Memos, budget papers and presented Singapore’s position at international fora. He was a member of the SAF Scholars Selection Board and chairman of a university’s Resource Panel.

He was also a Desk Editor at The Straits Times, where he taught reporting and interviewing skills at its School of Journalism. In all, his participants had included CEOs, professors, staff writers, technical specialists, undergraduates and students. It doesn’t matter how high a participant’s work status may be - all that mattered is a penchant for learning.

As a volunteer, he was a Mediator with the Ministry of Law, a Council Member of the Singapore Red Cross Society and writes regularly for the local and regional media. And, oh yes, he was co-founder of an attractive English Premier League supporters club in Singapore that neither don red nor blue.