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    Title: Critical Thinking: Take the Time to Think About Thinking
    Area of Discipline: Leadership / Professional Development
    Description: We discuss the issues of the nature and techniques of critical thought, viewed as a way to establish a reliable basis for our claims, beliefs and attitudes about the world and the impact on our decision making. We explore multiple perspectives, placing established facts, theories and practices in tension with alternatives to see how things could be otherwise, and we explore views about observation and interpretation, reasoning and inference, valuing and judging, and the production of knowledge in its social context are analyzed. We look at understanding our limitations, biases, fallacies and prejudices and the impact these issues have on our thinking. We introduce the concept of translating what is discussed into strategies, materials and interventions, and explore the process of thinking critically and analytically in a deliberative decision making matrix.
    Date/Time: 8/27/2009 10:30 a.m.    
    Location: Nat'l Harbor 2&3
    Speaker(s):
    James M. Bertotti - The US Judge Advocate General's Corps
    Learning Objectives: Learn techniques for clear analytical thinking; learn how to recognize factors that influence how how we think; learn how our limitations, biases, fallacies, and prejudices impact how we think; learn how to filter out non-constructive or subjective thought so that any decision is primarily based on logic and objective reasoning; learn how to develop a systematic process for decision making.
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    Target Audience: App Support (trainers/helpdesk/analyst/user serv)
    CFOs/Accounting Professionals
    CIOs/IT Management/Technology Partners
    Developers/ Programmers
    Executive Directors/Administrators
    Human Resources Professionals
    IT Ops (engineers/sys & dbase admin/voice/infrast)
    KM Professionals
    Library/Research Professionals
    Lit Support/eDiscovery Professionals
    Marketing Professionals
    Practice Mgmt Prof's (client serv/bus analyst)
    Project Management Professionals
    Records Management Professionals
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