Establish the role of critical thinking in workplace and articulate to others, the role, value and benefits of critical thinking.

1. Explain the importance of critical thinking to work teams and the ability of people to:

- identify limitations

- logically connect ideas

- be objective

- scrutinise and evaluate processes

- find inconsistencies and errors

- apply critical thinking to problem solving processes

2. Explain the benefits of critical thinking to individuals and to the work organisation for eg:

- solving problems

- dealing with conflict

- making sound, informed decisions

- avoiding biases, prejudices, fallacies and assumptions

- building logical, justified and persuasive arguments

- distinguishing between emotion and logic

- using sound reasoning to diagnose and solve problems