Workshops
A gym for your thinking
This is where you actually lift the weights: on your own decisions, arguments and AI answers, with senior lecturers from the Academy of Critical Thinking spotting you. We train every muscle group a working mind needs: how you think, how you communicate, how you lead, how you handle pressure and how you work with AI. From cognitive biases to difficult conversations, every exercise starts from real situations.
What we train
Thirty topics in five areas. We choose and combine them around what your team needs.
Voices from the training room
Clients of the Academy of Critical Thinking.
“I was delighted to welcome the AKM to run a course for the British Embassy. This was extremely relevant to the work we do, and my whole team benefited from a well-organised, interactive course.”
former Ambassador of the United Kingdom · British Embassy
“AKM was our clear choice when choosing training. The lecturers adhered to the set parameters to the letter. Thanks to model situations, colleagues mastered the details that make the biggest difference in our business.”
Head of Pre-legal Collection · EOS-KSI
“AKM has become our stable partner. I really appreciate the flexibility, expertise of the lecturers, and tailor-made programs. For real results, we plan to expand education with AKM abroad.”
HR Manager · Metrohm Research
How we work together
Tell us what your group needs. We shape the session. You practise on examples that matter to your work.
- Start with a conversation. Tell me what your group does, how people use AI and what you would like them to be able to do afterwards.
- Shape the session. Our team of senior lecturers at AKM chooses the length, activities and tools around those aims. The proposal and price are tailored to your group.
- Train on your examples. We work through suitable examples from your context, in person or online, in English or Slovak. Fictional or anonymised cases can be used where real material is sensitive.
- Continue on your own. The Reader’s Companion gives participants a place to revisit the tools and try the available exercises afterwards.
Thinking and working with AI
- Keeping your own judgement when AI does much of the work
- Critical thinking and data traps: confirmation bias, misleading charts, correlation and causation
- Prompting through arguments
- Verifying AI outputs and spotting fabricated sources
- AI as a sparring partner for practice
- Turning data and AI outputs into clear business language
Strategic communication
- Persuasion and argumentation
- Strategic negotiation
- Presentation skills
- Storytelling
- Persuading with data
- Crisis communication
Difficult conversations
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Conflict resolution
- Communication self-defence: manipulation, logical fallacies and hidden pressure
- Disagreeing firmly without arrogance
- Delivering bad news
- Keeping your cool when the other side chooses anger or irony
Leadership and teams
- From specialist to leader
- Meetings that end with decisions
- How teams work together
- Motivation and engagement
- Developing talent
- Leading through strengths, with Gallup CliftonStrengths
Resilience and wellbeing
- Stress and pressure
- Boundaries and assertiveness
- Adapting to change
- Preventing burnout
- Psychological safety in teams
- Cognitive and digital detox
Formats
- Training of one to three days, for a team facing a well-defined problem
- A series over weeks or months, for changing habits
- An academy over months or years, for growing a culture
The full catalogue is at kritickemyslenie.sk.
Request a proposal
Tell me about your group and what you would like to work on.