High Impact Skills

Critical Thinking

Test the claim before you act on it: bias, evidence and inference under time pressure.

The business challenge

Why organizations ask for this

Employees rely on intuition or assumptions instead of structured analysis, which leads to poor decisions. Speed is used as the excuse, and the cost surfaces later.

Approach & methodology

How the programme actually runs

2 modules · 5 weeks · Blended · RO / EN

Case-based learning

Working through real cases where the plausible answer was the wrong one.

Scenario analysis

Identifying bias, evaluating evidence and reaching a logical conclusion under time pressure.

Applied to your own decisions

The final round uses the organization's own recent calls.

Competencies built

What participants can do afterwards

Analytical reasoning

Separate what is asserted from what is shown from what is concluded.

Structured problem-solving

Work the problem in an order that does not depend on luck.

Decision-making

Decide on incomplete information, knowing which part is missing.

Logic

Recognise the common fallacies, including in your own reasoning.

Expected business outcomes

What the organization should see

Better quality of decisions

Reduced cost of errors

Improved innovation and problem resolution

Schedule & format

Practical details

Audience

All employees and leaders

Duration

2 modules · 5 weeks

Format

Blended · RO / EN

Measurement

Kirkpatrick L1–L4

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

All employees and leaders.

2 modules · 5 weeks. The rhythm is deliberate: modules are spaced so participants apply the behaviour at work between sessions.

Blended. We adapt the mix to your geography and shift patterns.

Yes, and it always is. We start with two to three individual conversations with selected participants, then rebuild the cases, the language and the practice situations from your business.

Kirkpatrick levels one to four: reaction, knowledge, self-assessed behaviour, and the participant's manager assessing the same competencies. We agree the target behaviours with the sponsor before design starts.

Digital missions and buddy work on PROMOTE, with the participant's own manager involved. This is the difference between 15-20% and 60-80% transfer into practice.

Yes. We also deliver in French across our Western European and African operations.

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If you are exploring how capability building can strengthen performance across your organization, we can help you identify where the greatest opportunities for impact lie and what capabilities matter most in your specific context.

Our first conversation is exploratory. We look at your business priorities, current challenges and organizational maturity to identify where capability development could create the most meaningful and measurable value.