Training: Critical thinking alongside AI

The must-have skill for modern teams

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In a world where everyone has access to the same technology, how your people think will become one of your biggest competitive advantages.

Critical Thinking Alongside AI is practical, modern training designed to help your people think more critically, challenge information, understand their own thinking and use AI to enhance, rather than replace, human judgement.

This course is delivered in-house or online for your team (of all levels) or can be run as a senior team workshop. It will:

Think critically

Make better decisions

Use AI intelligently

Follow in the footsteps of 1,000s going through our courses

Summary

Who is it for?
Any team upwards of 4 people that want to maximise its impact in a changing world of work.

People working in information-heavy roles who need to make good judgements.

Teams increasingly using AI as part of their everyday work.

Leaders who want their people to challenge, question and think independently.

Organisations thinking about the human skills their workforce will need alongside AI.

No previous knowledge of AI or critical-thinking theory is required.

Format
Full day, half day or as a masterclass. It can also be part of a wider away day curated by us, or fitted into your plans and delivered in-person or online.

Why is this course important?

AI can write the report, summarise the meeting, snalyse the data, generate the ideas and give you an answer in seconds.

But what happens to our ability to think when we increasingly outsource the thinking?

AI and design researcher and TED speaker Advait Sarkar warns that the way we use AI could have “profound implications for human thought.” He describes the risk of us becoming “intellectual tourists in our own work”... visiting ideas without really inhabiting them.

Critical Thinking Alongside AI is practical, modern training designed to help your people think more critically, challenge information, understand their own thinking and use AI to enhance, rather than replace, human judgement.

This is an area Hack Yourself pinpoints as a crucial skill set for modern teams.

Areas of focus

The changing world of thinking – Understanding how the way we work is changing and why critical thinking matters more alongside AI.

Audit your thinking – Explore your current critical-thinking capabilities, habits and approach to making judgements.

Metacognition – Think about your thinking. Understand how you reach conclusions and recognise when your own judgement deserves to be questioned.

Biases and assumptions – Identify the cognitive shortcuts that influence decisions without us even noticing.

Analysing information and arguments – Go beyond whether something sounds convincing and interrogate the evidence, logic and assumptions underneath it.

Separating fact from fiction – Develop techniques for navigating misinformation, weak evidence, confident claims and AI-generated content.

Distraction and instant gratification – Understand what constant notifications, instant information and immediate answers are doing to deeper thought.

The art of better questions – Learn how questioning assumptions and reframing problems can lead to completely different answers.

Constructive challenge – Build confidence to challenge ideas, groupthink and accepted wisdom without becoming the person who simply disagrees with everything.

A framework for critical thinking – Take away a practical framework you can use when approaching important information, problems and decisions.

Thinking alongside AI – Learn how to use AI to challenge your thinking, expose assumptions and introduce alternative perspectives.

What will team members get from it?

Your team members will:

Think independently - Build the confidence and capability to form your own judgement rather than simply accepting the first answer

Understand your own thinking - Recognise the biases, assumptions and shortcuts influencing how you interpret information and make decisions

Challenge information - Learn practical ways to interrogate claims, arguments, evidence and increasingly convincing misinformation.

Make better decisions - Slow down thinking at the moments that matter and use simple frameworks to reach better judgements.

Work better alongside AI - Use AI as a thinking partner — not a substitute for thinking.

Stay cognitively engaged - Understand how distraction, instant answers and outsourcing thought can affect attention, curiosity, memory and deeper thinking.

What will your organisation get from it?

When you book our Critical Thinking Alongside AI training course, you will get:

Better decisions - Teams that interrogate information and assumptions before acting.

Better use of AI - Move beyond simply generating content and help people use AI intelligently to improve the quality of their work.

More confident challenge - Create teams willing to question ideas, offer alternative perspectives and avoid groupthink.

Stronger problem solving - Give people practical techniques for approaching complex and unfamiliar problems

Future-ready skills - Develop a human capability that becomes more, not less, important as AI becomes embedded in everyday work.

“...much needed time away from my working day to day to reflect and reset ”

Wai-Mon Lie
Manager, Program Management

“...massively surpassed my expectations”

Gina Gradley
Senior Regional Marketing Specialist

“I'd go as far to say it was life-changing”

Melanie Wynne
Head of Lead Generation

Meet the Team

Everyone who works for Hack Yourself has a real job, leading their industry right now. Here are your lead trainers:

Lead Trainer

Mark Harris

Alongside being an experienced coach and tutor, Mark has over twenty years of experience as a Commercial Product and Marketing Director working within start-ups to reputable brands such as O2 and EDF Energy.

Founder and author of Hack Yourself, Lead Trainer

Jack Lowman

Jack founded Hack Yourself in 2017, and is an experienced course director, speaker, facilitator, and coach.

Passionate about giving people the skills and opportunities to thrive, Jack has held senior positions across charity, public and private sectors, including at The Prince's Trust, where he led the marketing and digital department.

Lead Trainer

Donna White

Donna is an award-winning and experienced digital marketing leader, with cross-cutting skills including counseling, facilitating and coaching.

Donna developed and leads our diversity and inclusion modules and joins our facilitation team for our in-company courses.