Tips to Boost Your Analytical Thinking
29mGeneral2024-12-17
Authors
Christina Stathopoulos
Data Whisperer, Analytics Specialist, Public Speaker, and Educator
Course details
Analytical thinking is an essential skill in just about every field or profession. In this course, Christina Stathopoulos guides you through the steps required to develop and master your analytical thinking skills. She shares quick, practical strategies to tap into higher-order thinking, boost analytical thinking with data, focus on the most effective data, and consider the most effective ways to measure and evaluate information that informs your decisions. Along the way, get tips on how to continue developing your analytical thinking by teaching others.
Learning objectives
Apply analytical thinking to enhance decision-making.
Integrate higher-order thinking skills to think analytically.
Incorporate relevant data into thought processes.
Distinguish between quality and format of information to think analytically.
Learning objectives
Apply analytical thinking to enhance decision-making.
Integrate higher-order thinking skills to think analytically.
Incorporate relevant data into thought processes.
Distinguish between quality and format of information to think analytically.
Skills covered
Well-Being and Self-CarePersonal DevelopmentProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
Introduction
- Flex analytical thinking to make better decisions
- Tap into higher-order thinking
- Uncover the right problem
- Add data to your thinking process
- Focus on the right data for the problem at hand
- Check the size of your samples
- Move beyond absolute numbers
- Identify the risk of averages
- Remember correlation doesn't imply causation
- Keep it simple to tap into an analytical mindset
- Make large numbers relatable with social math
- Teach others to boost your analytical thinking
- Sharpen your analytical thinking with brain games