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Insights Discovery Critical Thinking

Insights Discovery
Critical Thinking

This facilitated experience combines the Critical Thinking Chapter in the Insights Discovery profile with a practical framework to help learners at all levels make sound decisions with confidence.

It builds awareness of each learner's thinking strengths and helps them challenge assumptions, evaluate evidence (including AI) and apply critical thinking to real workplace situations.

Insights Discovery Critical Thinking Framework

Insights Discovery Critical Thinking drives:

  • Business performance
    Business performance
  • Visionary innovation
    Visionary innovation
  • Strategic use of AI
    Strategic use of AI
  • Organisational resilience
    Organizational resilience
  • Collaboration culture
    Collaboration culture

From cognitive surrender to critical thinking. Empower your team to succeed in today’s workplace

Critical thinking drives innovation. It helps us evaluate evidence, question assumptions and make nuanced decisions that technology can't make for us.

It's how we cut through complexity, spot hidden opportunities and use AI with intention rather than autopilot.

But only if we activate it.

Insights Discovery Critical Thinking by Insights develops these skills using the familiar language of Insights color energies.

In a single month

55%

of employees said AI errors
caused problems
because
they weren’t caught in time.

58%

of employees had to redo
work
because AI got it wrong.

Source: 2026 Insights AI at Work Report

Where your people
need critical
thinking most

Every organization has areas where
better judgment, questioning and
challenge can make a difference.

AI-generated work

People accept AI outputs, because they look credible, without checking evidence or
considering what might be missing.

High-stakes decisions

People make important decisions too quickly, relying on familiar assumptions or incomplete
information instead of testing the thinking behind them.

Problem-solving and innovation

Teams settle on the first plausible answer instead of challenging assumptions and looking at
problems from different perspectives.

Challenge and collaboration

People hesitate to question ideas or offer a different perspective, allowing flawed thinking to
go untested.

The learning experience

1

Get
started

Learners take the evaluator and receive an Insights Discovery profile that includes the Critical Thinking chapter to understand their critical thinking strengths and weaknesses.

2

Learn
together

A flexible facilitated workshop to understand why critical thinking matters and identify thinking traps. Learners explore a practical framework to evaluate AI output in decision-making.

3

Embed the
learning

An interactive follow-up workshop embeds the critical thinking framework into learners’ decision-making style and improves how they approach AI output, building their judgment over time.

4

The right
supports

Rich learning materials support facilitators and help learners integrate the Insights Discovery Critical Thinking Framework when making decisions – especially when using AI.

7 languages
7 languages
Videos
Videos
Post-learning support and digital materials
Post-learning support
& digital materials

When something looks polished, sounds confident and arrives quickly, as AI content often does, it's surprisingly easy to accept it without fully testing whether it's actually right.

- Dr. Tanya Boyd, Organizational Psychologist, Insights

Woman standing next to a friendly retro robot

Make critical thinking your competitive advantage

The closer we work with AI, the more crucial critical thinking skills become. This is the single most important L&D investment organizations can make to futureproof their business.

Better decision-making

When teams evaluate evidence, challenge assumptions and weigh trade-offs before acting, they make sound decisions, even at pace.

Improved use of AI

Teams that treat AI as a thinking partner, not a decision-maker, realize more value from the organization's AI investment.

Reduced risk

Critical thinkers who identify blind spots and question weak evidence course-correct bad decisions before they happen.

Faster problem solving

Teams that identify root causes and effective responses when problem-solving reduce rework later on.

Critical thinking is human thinking

Discover the critical thinking skills every organization needs

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