Critical Thinking
The Executive Skills Series
Executive skills are not limited to a C-suite exclusive. They’re for everyone. They are the cognitive skills that help you make strategic decisions, regulate your behavior and emotions, and apply your strengths to your tasks to reach goals. Everyone has both strong and weak executive skills. Identifying the skills you’re using and how you’re using ...
The Critical Thinking Series
Critical thinking is described as your best thinking when making important decisions or understanding complex ideas. When you think critically, you become aware of the many distractions and biases that might steer your decisions one way or another. This course series will introduce you to innovative skills and thinking structures to identify assumptions, question arguments, ...
The Innovation for Managers Series
Solving problems is the key to innovation and advancement, but far too often, we get in our own way by assuming the solution before we’ve really analyzed the problem. Getting stuck on the assumed solution will slow you down, creating more steps that have to be taken to achieve the desired result. This quick and ...
Asking Questions is the Foundation of Critical Thinking
Asking questions is crucial to the success of each stage of the critical thinking process. It enables you to find errors in your existing knowledge and gain insights that will shape your solutions. While you’ll probably need to ask a lot of questions, quality is more important than quantity. Learn to work with your team ...
Seeking Multiple Perspectives
In the critical thinking process, every perspective is valuable because every perspective provides a different view of the issue being solved. The more unique perspectives you have, the more whole your picture of the problem will be, allowing you to reach the most fitting solution. Bringing in multiple perspectives will also help you to create ...
Evaluating Arguments
When you’re practicing critical thinking, you have to eliminate assumptions. Part of eliminating assumptions is deconstructing arguments for or against a conclusion to discover whether they’re based on sound reasoning. You’d be surprised how often logical fallacies can be found at the root of seemingly solid arguments. Proper evaluation will help you determine which arguments ...
