The Critical Thinking Toolkit

#30: Pro Con’D

Overview:	Participants will first learn how to use this simple analytical tool and then apply it to given issues that affect us as corporate and community citizens.
Objective:	To encourage careful and deliberate scrutiny of issues prior to making decisions regarding them.
Supplies:	• Transparency #30-1• Overhead projector• Flipcharts
Time:	Approximately 15 minutes
AdvancePreparation:	Download Transparency #30-1. If the training room allows flexible seating, arrange table groups of seven or eight.
Participants/Application:	Any number of participants can use this technique, for any number of issues that arise—either during the course of the training or afterwards in team and staff meetings. If used as a session-opener, ...