The ability to evaluate facts, trends, and situations is vital in today’s information age. Organizations are finding critical thinking to be one of the key competencies of highly successful people and leaders. A lack of situational awareness or perceptual biases in critical thinking can lead to compromised decisions costing organizations time, money, resources, people, or worse – their reputation!
Critical Thinking
Takes deep reflection and should consider the unique judgment biases and filters of the individual
Critical Thinking Process
- clearly see information and process it
- create a plan of action
- act on the plan
Critical Thinking Training?
Advanced training however, does not always guarantee better decisions will be made, as knowing something and applying it are two different things. Understanding one’s natural judgment ability and unique style of processing is vital to becoming a better critical thinker as everyone must understand and overcome their potential biases, blind spots, and filters to become a better critical thinker. When in doubt the person can seek out better advice and consciously use targeted reflective thinking to make better decisions.
