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Critical Thinking Means Business
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CT Primer
An overview of critical thinking to give you the essentials
Critical Thinking and Social Media Webinar
Join me for a webinar on critical thinking and social media on September 28th at 3pm Eastern through HR.com. Think Fast! Turn information overload & thousands of social connections into increased productivity Description: With over 145 million blogs and millions of Twitter and Facebook users online each day, it’s hard for your employees to ignore [...]
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 [...]
Critical Thinking is the #1 Skill
In an article released yesterday, the Society for Human Resources (SHRM) and the Conference Board confirmed that the need for critical thinking has never been greater: “In fact, a recent study by the Society of Human Resource Management and The Conference Board rated critical thinking and problem solving as the number one skill of increasing [...]
Creative Thinking vs. Critical Thinking: Which is More Important?
In the process of brainstorming a solution to a problem, it is undeniable that both critical thinking and creativity are necessary and complementary. In many ways, creative thinking can be considered divergent thinking. It is the process by which we generate new ideas, imagine possibilities, and find relationships among seemingly unrelated concepts. Therefore, Critical Thinking [...]
Don’t Be Pavlov’s Dog
Why do we do what we do? Truthfully, in many cases we can’t explain why we do what we do. Our behaviors are often learned, conditioned, and unconscious. We would like to believe we are more sophisticated than Pavlov’s dogs, but if we really examine our behaviors we might find a total lack of critical [...]
The Danger of Mental Auto-Pilot
Have you ever driven somewhere, arrived at your destination, and realized you can’t remember many things you passed along the way or anything on the radio? While you are driving safely, you mind can shift into auto-pilot and not actively attend to your surroundings. This happens most when we are familiar with our route. [...]
Critical Thinking: It’s For Everyone!
When I first made the career change to work with critical thinking assessments and services, I had a conversation with my mom about the term critical thinking. ”I don’t like that,” she said. ”That term is uppity.” I remember being surprised and confused. How can critical thinking be a bad thing? After a long discussion [...]
Monday Morning Critical Thinking Fails
It’s Monday morning and like the rest of the working adults in America, you are guzzling coffee and struggling to find motivation. We, at critical-thinkers.com, believe it’s time for a laugh and to learn from the critical thinking failures of others. Enjoy! (Sources noted on each picture)
Be Your Own Devil’s Advocate
This week, Lizzie Pauker had a great post about How to Be a Well-Received Devil’s Advocate, and it made me think about why we make someone else fill the devil’s advocate role. Why don’t we ask ourselves the same question that a devil’s advocate would? Have you ever had a fantastic idea and immediately called [...]
The Value of Asking Questions
One thing I’ve learned from being a remote employee is to never take your colleagues for granted. It’s a great feeling to get together and catch up. Even better is that that the amount of useful information they share! It’s always great to share things we’re hearing about critical thinking but to do it in [...]