Stop Being the Bottleneck: Transform Your Team into Strategic Partners
Most teams are stuck in "Execution Mode." The Critical Thinking Roadmap is a research-backed, 4-phase framework that teaches your people to synthesize data, make sound recommendations, and generate new ideas—so you don't have to do the thinking for them.
EXPLORE OUR CURRICULUMThe Problem: The "Execution" Trap
Most teams are stuck in Level 1: Execution. They do what they’re told, but they don't know why. This leaves leaders stuck in a cycle of constant oversight, correcting avoidable errors, and doing the heavy lifting of "thinking" for everyone else.
The cost? Slow decision-making, missed opportunities, and leadership burnout.
The Critical Thinking Roadmap
The Critical Thinking Roadmap is a step-by-step system designed specifically for knowledge workers. Based on the acclaimed Zarvana framework, this course moves your team through four distinct stages of thinking maturity:
How to Become a Better Critical Thinker
Phase 1: Execute (The Baseline)
Phase 2: Synthesize (The Insight)
Phase 3: Recommend (The Decision-Maker)
Phase 4: Generate (The Spark)
Critical Thinking Development Plan
What’s Inside the Roadmap?
This isn't just theory—it’s a toolkit for the modern workplace.
- The 4-Phase Diagnostic: Pinpoint exactly where each team member is currently stuck.
- The "Recommendation" Template: A plug-and-play format for staff to use when presenting ideas to leadership.
- Synthesis Mind Maps: Tools to help team members turn 10 pages of data into 3 actionable bullet points.
Free Critical Thinking Roadmap Toolkit
Develop an understanding of the foundational elements of our curriculum and approach to critical thinking.
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A Marketing Agency Develops a New Playbook for Critical Thinking
A marketing agency decided to run their whole team through our 12-week critical thinking training program. Several weeks after the program ended, we received this update from their Head of People:
"For some feedback on how we’re embedding what we’ve learned, we’ve summarized what we felt were the key tools and a couple of the strategists have crafted that into a playbook that all the team has access to. We just reviewed it with the team at our on-site meetings last week. Really working on implementing to make sure people are making good use of the work!"
This is the goal of our training programs: lasting change for the whole team.
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Co-Founder
"I have already introduced the program to a number of other agency owners to help them get the most out of their team, especially around the concept of idea generation and communicating."
Founder
"It gives people a way to think about thinking and collectively talk about thinking in a way that enables both to improve."
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Critical Thinking Resources
Our critical thinking articles unpack key approaches and tools we teach in our trainings and provide some additional context on the research supporting the use of those tools.
How to Build Your Team’s Critical Thinking Skills
Critical thinking is not an innate gift that can't be learned. This research-based roadmap makes it simple to develop these in-demand skills.
Critical Thinking Process: 4 Questions that Improve Any Idea
Leaders must respond to others' ideas and decisions all the time, but few have a critical thinking process for improving them.
How to Create the Team Culture that Fosters Critical Thinking
Critical thinking grows where debate is welcome. Yet, teams are often organized around reaching consensus.Â
Turn "Doers" into Strategic Thinkers
Every hour your team spends waiting for instructions is an hour of lost growth. Stop managing tasks and start leading a team of autonomous problem-solvers who bring you solutions, not just data.
Not sure which level is right for your team? Let’s build a tailored implementation plan. We’ll look at your current team maturity and identify the fastest path to moving them up the Roadmap.
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