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Think Well & Prosper Critical Thinking: A Staff Training Guide

Steve Bareham

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Description:Critical thinking is important in all aspects of life, but tackling it explicitly is often overlooked in the work world. Yet, never have higher order thinking skills been more important as companies compete for every competitive edge possible. Nowhere can you get more bang for your buck than in staff training that boosts people's abilities in the areas of analysis, reasoning, decision making, problem solving, creativity, planning, etc. This is one of the few books on critical thinking that relate to critical thinking for management and staff training. Outlining the processes involved in critical thinking, known as higher order thinking skills (HOTs); defining these processes, and making the case for staff training in the area, is what this book is about. It explores the impact of HOT skills training to improve profits, productivity, and staff morale. It also produces evidence that critical thinking skills are often present in managers, but not widely among rank-and-file staff. People who think critically often assume that everyone else knows how to as well, and are often disappointed when it becomes evident that others don’t share the knowledge or skills. When managers think critically but other staff members do not, miscommunication, misunderstanding, mistakes, and even distrust often result.People who think critically think productively routinely and as a matter of habit. When faced with complex decisions or problems, they reframe, attempting to examine the issue from all angles in a search for optimal solutions based on “now,” not the past. Critical thinkers always conduct exhaustive research when it’s warranted so they benefit from others’ knowledge and then they adapt and evolve what they find to the unique situation. This is productive thinking and it generates superior results almost always compared to reproductive thinking which is too often quick and dirty and only as innovative as one brain sans research can be.Few people understand that they would be more successful if they approached thinking as an algorithmic process. Instead, energy is directed in a rush toward outcomes — to decisions, plans, conclusions, and judgments. Quick results preoccupy the North American psyche. Herein lays the problem. When people hurry thinking because they don’t know what they don’t know, the fixation on decisions, plans, conclusions, and judgments means they move directly to the latter stages of thinking; they force answers without asking all the right questions. This is backwards thinking and responsible, in large part, for results that are rarely optimal.Thinking weaknesses are also attributable to the fact that thinking skills aren’t taught explicitly in most schools. Explicit means to do something deliberately so there is no doubt as to “...fully revealed or expressed; without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity; no question as to intent.” While our schools teach many subjects explicitly (math, English, even physical education) thinking skills are left to be acquired implicitly, meaning they should be picked up secondarily as a result of other studies. Implicit “...capable of being understood from something else, though unexpressed; implied, vague...”Thinking skills are rarely picked up implicitly so we have tens of millions of people who literally don’t know what they don’t know.Thinking well is a skill like any other that must be learned and practiced. Once the skills are used routinely, remarkable things begin to happen as examples, videos, and articles found in the book reveal. If you’re a manager looking for a new challenge, tackling how your staff thinks is one that is very worthwhile.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Think Well & Prosper Critical Thinking: A Staff Training Guide. To get started finding Think Well & Prosper Critical Thinking: A Staff Training Guide, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 147

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Summa Publishing

Release: 2013

ISBN: 0991680634

Description: Critical thinking is important in all aspects of life, but tackling it explicitly is often overlooked in the work world. Yet, never have higher order thinking skills been more important as companies compete for every competitive edge possible. Nowhere can you get more bang for your buck than in staff training that boosts people's abilities in the areas of analysis, reasoning, decision making, problem solving, creativity, planning, etc. This is one of the few books on critical thinking that relate to critical thinking for management and staff training. Outlining the processes involved in critical thinking, known as higher order thinking skills (HOTs); defining these processes, and making the case for staff training in the area, is what this book is about. It explores the impact of HOT skills training to improve profits, productivity, and staff morale. It also produces evidence that critical thinking skills are often present in managers, but not widely among rank-and-file staff. People who think critically often assume that everyone else knows how to as well, and are often disappointed when it becomes evident that others don’t share the knowledge or skills. When managers think critically but other staff members do not, miscommunication, misunderstanding, mistakes, and even distrust often result.People who think critically think productively routinely and as a matter of habit. When faced with complex decisions or problems, they reframe, attempting to examine the issue from all angles in a search for optimal solutions based on “now,” not the past. Critical thinkers always conduct exhaustive research when it’s warranted so they benefit from others’ knowledge and then they adapt and evolve what they find to the unique situation. This is productive thinking and it generates superior results almost always compared to reproductive thinking which is too often quick and dirty and only as innovative as one brain sans research can be.Few people understand that they would be more successful if they approached thinking as an algorithmic process. Instead, energy is directed in a rush toward outcomes — to decisions, plans, conclusions, and judgments. Quick results preoccupy the North American psyche. Herein lays the problem. When people hurry thinking because they don’t know what they don’t know, the fixation on decisions, plans, conclusions, and judgments means they move directly to the latter stages of thinking; they force answers without asking all the right questions. This is backwards thinking and responsible, in large part, for results that are rarely optimal.Thinking weaknesses are also attributable to the fact that thinking skills aren’t taught explicitly in most schools. Explicit means to do something deliberately so there is no doubt as to “...fully revealed or expressed; without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity; no question as to intent.” While our schools teach many subjects explicitly (math, English, even physical education) thinking skills are left to be acquired implicitly, meaning they should be picked up secondarily as a result of other studies. Implicit “...capable of being understood from something else, though unexpressed; implied, vague...”Thinking skills are rarely picked up implicitly so we have tens of millions of people who literally don’t know what they don’t know.Thinking well is a skill like any other that must be learned and practiced. Once the skills are used routinely, remarkable things begin to happen as examples, videos, and articles found in the book reveal. If you’re a manager looking for a new challenge, tackling how your staff thinks is one that is very worthwhile.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Think Well & Prosper Critical Thinking: A Staff Training Guide. To get started finding Think Well & Prosper Critical Thinking: A Staff Training Guide, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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