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Came across this a few months back. I thought others may be interested.
http://www.austhink.com/professional/
The company offers software that assists the process, but the free tutorials are worth a look as a stand alone (link toward the bottom of the page). It helped me refine my reasoning processes and I am now using the principles to support and structure my arguments.
Crtical Thinking and Reasoning
Agreed - I have used Rationale for a bit over a year now. You can do a lot of the mapping part using a mind mapping program, but it is the structure that the whole process gives to your thought processes and decision making that is so valuable.
-and the tutorials are great, as is the blog Rationale Thoughts at http://rtnl.wordpress.com/
-and it's Australian :D
Crtical Thinking and Reasoning
[quote="JimGutherson"]-and the tutorials are great, as is the blog Rationale Thoughts at http://rtnl.wordpress.com/[/quote]
I've sent the URL to the people who maintain our internal training/eLearning web site for the external web resources section (list of recommended external sites that employees might find useful), I pointed them to Manager Tools months ago. I'll tell them about that blog now.
Thanks
Stephen