Critical Thinking withEmotional Intelligence
Use emotional intelligence to think about thinking and make critical decisions that engage others. Learn to combine reason and emotion for wiser judgements, clearer communication, and more ethical leadership.
Thinking and emotion are not opposites.
The most powerful critical thinking happens when you bring emotional intelligence to the way you reason, decide, and act.
Combine the power of emotional intelligence and critical thinking to make wiser decisions and communicate with greater impact
Emotional intelligence helps leaders build relationships, manage conflict, and respond thoughtfully to complex problems. This course explores how emotional intelligence enhances critical thinking and decision-making — challenging the idea that thinking and emotion are separate, and showing how emotional insight supports ethical, empathetic, and effective judgement.
You will examine unconscious bias and learn to recognise how it influences reasoning and systems thinking. You will explore thinking styles, emotional patterns, and the role of emotions in learning and decision-making, developing the self-awareness to become a more balanced and insightful thinker.
Practical activities help you apply emotional intelligence to real-world challenges and become a more effective thinker and communicator. The course connects emotional awareness with strategic thinking and problem-solving, offering practical tools for workplace application.
Ideal for educators, analysts, managers, consultants, and entrepreneurs. A foundational understanding of emotional intelligence is recommended, along with an open mind and a willingness to reflect on how you think.
What you will learn
Describe how emotional intelligence and critical thinking work together to support better decisions and more ethical judgement.
Differentiate between the two thinking systems and understand their impact on your emotional intelligence and reasoning.
Identify unconscious bias and thinking distortions and recognise how they influence your thinking, perceptions, and decisions.
Determine ways to develop and improve your critical thinking and emotional intelligence skills for greater leadership impact.
What you will study
Tools that make your learning personal
Most online courses contain videos and quizzes.
This course gives you 5 interactive tools and resources, developed exclusively for Ei4Change learners.
Here are two examples of what you will find inside.
Exploring your Unconscious Bias
A self-reflection tool that helps you surface and examine the unconscious biases that shape your thinking, judgements, and decisions — and explore how they may be influencing your behaviour without your awareness.
- Guides you through a structured exploration of the biases most likely to affect your critical thinking and decision-making
- Helps you recognise specific patterns of unconscious bias that may be distorting your perceptions and judgements
- Encourages honest reflection on how your background, experiences, and emotional responses shape the way you see situations
- Supports you in developing greater awareness of how bias operates in your thinking before it influences your actions
- Provides a foundation for more ethical, empathetic, and emotionally intelligent decision-making
Critical Thinking Navigator
A practical thinking tool that helps you approach complex situations more systematically, combining emotional intelligence with structured reasoning to reach clearer, more balanced conclusions.
- Guides you through a step-by-step process for analysing complex or emotionally charged situations with greater clarity
- Helps you identify assumptions, challenge distorted thinking, and weigh evidence more objectively
- Encourages you to integrate emotional awareness with logical reasoning for more balanced judgements
- Supports you in distinguishing between facts, interpretations, and emotional reactions when making important decisions
- Provides a transferable framework you can return to whenever you need to think more clearly and critically
Built for real learning, not just completion.
Every element of this course is designed to move you forward.
Content, tools, and resources that meet you where you are and take you further.
HD video lessons
All video content professionally produced and recorded in HD 1080p
5 interactive tools
Exclusive tools and resources built for Ei4Change learners
Knowledge checks
Interactive quizzes to consolidate and test your understanding
Practical activities
Structured exercises that embed your learning in real situations
Certificate of completion
Shareable certificate of completion from Ei4Change
30 day guarantee
Full refund if you are not completely satisfied, no questions asked
Lifetime access
Return to the course whenever you need it, with free updates included
Section 508 compliant PDFs
All course materials meet accessibility standards
Lightbulb Moments Cards
Beautifully designed summary cards capturing key insights from each course. Print them, keep them on your desk, and refer back to them whenever you need a reminder of what you have learned. Learners report that these are among the most useful resources in the course.
What learners say
Robin Hills is the founder of Ei4Change and a recognised authority in emotional intelligence, with more than 45 years of experience as a business psychologist, trainer, and facilitator.
Emotional intelligence is not one topic among many in his work. It is the central focus. His teaching is built on a clear principle: emotional intelligence only matters when it is applied in real situations that shape decisions, relationships, and performance.
Through Ei4Change, Robin has developed one of the most established global platforms for emotional intelligence learning and development. His courses have reached over 600,000 learners across more than 200 countries, spanning a wide range of roles, industries, and levels of experience.
His approach is grounded in psychological research and informed by practical experience. Rather than offering quick fixes or surface level insight, he focuses on helping people think clearly under pressure, handle difficult situations, and make better decisions in the moment.
Robin's work reflects the reality that emotional intelligence is not about feeling good. It is about understanding what is happening within yourself and with others, and responding in a way that improves outcomes.
Ready to think more clearly,
decide more wisely, and lead with greater impact?
Join learners who are using Critical Thinking with Emotional Intelligence to sharpen their reasoning, overcome bias, and make better decisions in every area of their work and life.
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