How to Form a Robust Opinion

Maybe you've got an idea that you want to put forward at work, but you're not sure how it'll go down. Perhaps you're looking to influence a new policy or persuade your senior leadership team to take a new direction. Whatever your reason for wanting to construct a robust opinion, you're in the right place. This short course will take you through three steps to help you form an opinion that's thoughtful and nuanced. This training course has been created in collaboration with our subject matter expert, Eleanor Snare, emotional literacy specialist and life coach.

Our online How to Construct a Robust Opinion training course is broken down into the following sections and can be completed at your own pace. The course includes:

• Research

  • Explore the difference between quantitative and qualitative research.
  • Understand the importance of primary research in forming evidence-based opinions.

• Assessing the Validity of Research

  • Learn how to assess the validity of information in a world of 'fake news.'
  • Understand the TRAAP Test and complete a matching activity to reinforce your learning.

• Inferring

  • Discover the role of inferring in building a robust opinion.
  • Participate in exercises to apply inferring in practice.

• Extension Task

  • Test your skills in constructing and evidencing a robust opinion with hypothetical scenarios.

Why take this How to Construct a Robust Opinion course?

This short course has been designed to help you to construct a robust opinion in the most effective way possible. It will take you through three steps to help you form an opinion that's thoughtful and nuanced, starting with researching your topic, then assessing the information, and finally inferring what it all means. You will learn to identify different types of research by looking at examples of quantitative and qualitative information, and primary and secondary research as well as be able to apply and combine both deductive and inductive reasoning skills.

How to Construct a Robust Opinion Course Duration

This short power skill course should take 8-12 minutes to complete, but e-learning is self-paced, so it depends entirely on your individual learning speed and how quickly you absorb the study material.

Certification

After completing this How to Construct a Robust Opinion course, you will be able to download and print a certificate for your records.

Entry requirements

There are no specific entry requirements for this How to Construct a Robust Opinion course.