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6 Powerful Characteristics of Great Critical Thinkers
We spend so much time discussing what critical thinking is and how to do it that we often overlook an important conversation: what skills do good critical thinkers have? I believe there are 6 characteristics needed to be a great critical thinker. Sure there may be more but together these are powerful. Do you have [...]
Do you WAIT in meetings? You should.
I keep coming back to a tweet I read month ago. It said we should “W.A.I.T.” and ask ourselves, “why am I talking?” Some of us may interpret this as another way to say “think before you speak” or “engage your brain before you engage your mouth” but I think it’s taking it one step [...]
The Art of Bookend Meetings
Last month I was introduced to the term “tailgate meeting.” This meeting doesn’t require beer nor do you have to convene in the parking lot. Instead a tailgate meeting is the post meeting reflection. As catchy as the tailgate meeting sounds, I like the visual of bookends better. A meeting cannot stand-alone. There are those [...]
Critical Thinking Exercise: Watch the News.
I often wonder how many people actually watch the news. Until today, I never realized that it’s a pretty hard statistic to find. But there are a bunch of different news programs on television which leads me believe that there must be a decent number of viewers. Until recently, I’ve always gone to one channel [...]
Hot off the Press: Pearson Launches Critical Thinking Website
You may have already heard that Pearson has launched our Critical Thinking website, www.ThinkWatson.com. Courtesy of our TalentLens team, I’d like to share our Press Release with you: Pearson Launches Critical Thinking Website,www.ThinkWatson.com Minneapolis, MN and San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) August 17, 2010 Employee assessments and online personality tests are vital to successful business and leadership development [...]
Critical Thinking Fail: It Can Happen to You!
Meet Theo. Theo is my family cat. About four months ago, Theo began acting up. We took him to the Vet, who gave him a full examination. Finding nothing out of the ordinary, we were told that Mr. Theo was suffering from anxiety and that we should invest in some aromatherapy to help calm him. [...]
4 Steps to Influence Others’ Assumptions
After meeting Carolyn Kepcher, I’ve been thinking a lot about career advice. Ultimately I came to the conclusion that what I was looking for is a way to control the assumptions others make about me. I was fortunate enough to discuss this with Anne & Charlie Kreitzberg, authors of Critical Thinking University, who explained that [...]
Seriously, Practice Makes Perfect.
We’ve all heard that practice makes perfect but do we believe it? Malcolm Gladwell, author of “Outliers: The Story of Success,” sure does. He says that in order to become an expert it takes about 10 years or 10,000 hours (which ever comes first, I suppose) of practice. Don’t trust Malcolm? Neurologist, Daniel Levitin says, [...]
4 Tips to Being a Well-Received Devil’s Advocate
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how to embrace critical thinking in meetings. The RED Model gives us a structured way to bring critical thinking into strategizing, brainstorming, planning, etc. but how do we take the extra step to ensure we’re critically thinking? One technique some companies do, is to assign the role of Devil’s Advocate [...]
Carolyn Kepcher Inspired Me to Critically Think
I’m currently in Chicago attending one of Pearson’s national meetings. I was fortunate enough to attend a talk Carolyn Kepcher gave yesterday. Carolyn spoke about work-life “balance,” women in business and, of course, what it was like to work for Donald Trump & be on The Apprentice. After the session I asked her what her [...]