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70 Questions to Boost Your Critical Thinking
In each step of the RED Model of Critical Thinking, the key is to ask questions. Asking questions helps us look more deeply at the issue, break it into parts, find blind spots and lack of data, and...
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Critical Thinking Exercise: Ebola in the U.S.
This week, the first diagnosed case of Ebola was identified in the US. Naturally, residents in Dallas, TX (and beyond) are concerned about the highly contagious, deadly disease spreading. Trainers,...
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Reboot Your Thinking: The Ctrl+Alt+Del Approach
Every once in a while we need to hit the reset button. When life gets too hectic, our days are over-scheduled, and information is coming at us faster than we can process it, we need to STOP and RESET....
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Critical Thinking: If You Can’t Define It, How Can You Hire For It?
Last week, The Wall Street Journal published a concerning article on the topic of critical thinking. The author states that even though managers are demanding critical thinking skills in potential...
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The Best Books on Critical Thinking
How are you working to improve your critical thinking skills? Through in-person training programs? Online learning? Brain teasers and puzzles? What about through reading books on critical thinking?...
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Free Webinar Tomorrow: Forget the Social Media Policy
Sign up now for tomorrow’s free webinar: Forget the Social Media Policy – Take the Critical Thinking Approach Tuesday, Jun 10 2014 3:00pm EDT 21st Century recruiters, sales, and marketing professionals...
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Top 10 Skills for Workforce Success
At Critical-Thinkers.com, we’ve been beating the drum about the importance of critical thinking skills training for over 4 years now. While schools and universities now almost universally tout their...
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LinkedIn Publishing and Your Impending Termination
There are two kinds of people on LinkedIn- those who use the LinkedIn Publishing service to broadcast blog posts and those who absolutely hate the LinkedIn Publishing feature! I don’t currently use the...
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When Policy Overrides Common Sense
Have you ever experienced a situation at work where someone has made a bad decision and the company decides that a new policy is the solution? What if companies could focus on teaching their employees...
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Critical Thinking University- Special Discount Through Dec 19th
How do you make good managers great? How do you innovate as an organization? Through improved critical thinking — the #1 skill for 21st century employee development and raw material for problem...
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The Critical Thinking Buddy System
Do you remember the Buddy System in grade school? When you went on field trips, you were likely assigned someone to be your “buddy” for the duration of the trip. You were accountable to one another...
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Cutting off the Ends of the Ham
A young girl was watching her mother bake a ham for a family gathering and noticed her mom cutting off the ends before placing it in the oven. “Mom, why do you cut the ends off before baking the ham?”...
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As the Skills Gap Widens, Employers Stop Requiring Degrees
For years, employers have bemoaned the higher education system and claimed that the skills gap is both real and widening. On this blog, we’ve shared dozens of studies showing the declining critical...
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Skepticism and Making Every Day April Fool’s Day
We all have at least one friend who consistently shares satire articles and obviously false memes on social media and believes that they are true. Have you ever wondered about that person’s thought...
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Think Critically, Earn Free Pizza
Calling all Critical Thinkers! It’s National Pi Day, and Pizza Hut is celebrating the math nerd in us all with an opportunity to win 3.14 years of free pizza! To win the pizza party of a lifetime, all...
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Confirmation Bias in Action: Critical Thinking While Parenting
If critical thinking was easy, everyone would do it! Every day, I speak with customers regarding the importance of assessing and developing critical thinking skills in their employees. I share ways in...
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What is Critical Thinking? Why Does it Matter?
Critical thinking is regarded as a key competency for all staff, with particular relevance to graduates and managers. In fact, the Department of Labor identified critical thinking as the raw material...
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Reboot Your Thinking: The Ctrl+Alt+Del Approach
Every once in a while we need to hit the reset button. When life gets too hectic, our days are over-scheduled, and information is coming at us faster than we can process it, we need to STOP and RESET....
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Critical Thinking: If You Can’t Define It, How Can You Hire For It?
Last week, The Wall Street Journal published a concerning article on the topic of critical thinking. The author states that even though managers are demanding critical thinking skills in potential...
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Critical Thinking University- Special Discount Through Dec 19th
How do you make good managers great? How do you innovate as an organization? Through improved critical thinking — the #1 skill for 21st century employee development and raw material for problem...
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