Burnout Prevention & Recovery Toolkit
August 19, 2020If you’re feeling overwhelmed, stressed, or burnt out, don’t rely on your intuition to figure out how to get out of it. Download this 42-page toolkit of evidence-based solutions.
Critical Thinking
With critical thinking ranking among the most in-demand skills for job candidates and influencing decision-making ability more than IQ, you would think that educational institutions would prepare students well to be exceptional thinkers and employers would be adept at developing such skills in existing employees. Unfortunately, both are largely untrue.
To help professionals build their own and their team’s critical thinking skills, we developed the Critical Thinking Roadmap. Using the Roadmap, you determine where you on 20 milestones to exceptional critical thinking and then use development exercises included in the Critical Thinking Roadmap Toolkit to go to the next level.
The next step for most is to begin asking yourself and others some of these 100 critical thinking-building questions and work to develop the 16 critical thinking skills. This 1.5-hour long training goes into depth on how to develop these skills and how to overcome the three plateaus where most people get stuck on the journey to genius-level critical thinking.
Becoming a better thinker may feel abstract, but it doesn’t have to be. The resources below and the 10 critical thinking behaviors on our professional development platform make it concrete and doable.
Science of Productivity: Can you become a better critical thinker?
July 9, 2020Are critical thinking skills just a gift some are born with and others are not? Or do more life experiences simply make you a better critical thinker?
8 Critical Thinking Fallacies You’re Likely Falling For on Social Media
July 2, 2020The 2.5 hours a day you spend on social media is training you how to think. If you’re missing these critical thinking fallacies, you’re reducing your ability to perform at work.
Lessons from Leading Pop Artists: How to be Creative Over and Over Again
May 27, 2020Being creative consistently can seem impossible, but lessons from how pop artists come up with new, award-winning songs show it doesn’t have to be.
The Ownership Rollercoaster: How Managers Undermine Team Performance
May 21, 2020The extent to which your team members take ownership for their work influences the quality of the work. Yet, many managers unknowingly sap their teams of ownership.
Virtual Productivity: Remote Work Toolkit
April 1, 2020COVID-19 has rapidly accelerated a trend toward remote work. It’s time to figure out how to do it well. This 44-page toolkit walks you through step-by-step.
Managers’ Deep Work Training
March 14, 2020Deep, cognitively demanding work is managers’ most important work, but experience & research show they have very little time for it. Here’s how to make more time for it.
Work-Life Satisfaction Training
March 14, 2020Work-life satisfaction is the antidote to burnout and increasingly important part of a workplace culture. This training unpacks how to make it the norm.
The 3 Step Decision-Making Process You Need to Know Before Worrying About Cognitive Biases
March 11, 2020To improve their decisions, many jump straight to cognitive biases, when a simple, repeatable decision-making process is the best place to start.
Critical Thinking Process: 4 Questions that Improve Any Idea
February 10, 2020Leaders must respond to others’ ideas and decisions all the time, but few have a critical thinking process for improving them.
Critical Thinking Can Be Learned. Here’s The Evidence-Based Way How.
January 30, 2020Critical thinking can be learned, but it’s hard. Reading a book on logic probably won’t help. Instead, work on all 4 of these components.
Steps to Building Genius-Level Critical Thinking Skills (Intensive Training)
January 15, 2020What are the steps necessary to build the 16 critical thinking skills and overcome common barriers to becoming an exceptional thinker? This 1.5-hour training provides the answers.
3 Great Ways to Invest Your Professional Development Budget Before 2020
December 23, 2019Most professionals don’t spend the professional development budget their companies offer them. Don’t make this mistake.
Top 3 Skills Leaders & Managers Should Develop in 2020
December 19, 2019You have 28 mins/week to focus on your development & thousands of options. What skills or even what critical thinking skills should you focus on?
Key Questions about Critical Thinking Answered
December 12, 2019Succinct, compact answers to the top 12 questions from our critical thinking online intensive training.
Critical Thinking Example: How to Become Someone Others Go to for Advice
December 11, 2019This example of critical thinking in the workplace shows 3 strategies that will enable you to push others’ thinking on topics you know nothing about.
Critical Thinking Example in Action: Microsoft’s 4-Day Workweek Experiment
December 4, 2019This timely critical thinking example shows the difference superior critical thinking skills can make in your day-to-day work and life.
Barriers to Critical Thinking: 3 Plateaus Where People Get Stuck
December 3, 2019In your journey to becoming an exceptional critical thinker, avoid getting stuck in these plateaus that act as barriers to the next phases of thinking.
Why Critical Thinking is Important in 2020
November 27, 2019You have very little time to invest in your development. Here’s why critical thinking is so important it should be your top priority.
16 Critical Thinking Skills that Will Make You Stand Out
November 22, 2019Building critical thinking skills can feel overwhelming. It doesn’t have to. We’ve organized these skills to make it easy to know where to start.
Defining Critical Thinking: What is & Why that Matters
November 14, 2019Want to become a standout thinker but not sure that means? We’ve cut through the complexity to deliver a simple critical thinking definition.
How to Become the Best Critical Thinker in Your Workplace
November 13, 2019A free online, in-depth training built on insights from our widely popular Harvard Business Review article.
100 Questions that Build Your Team’s Critical Thinking Skills
November 8, 2019Carefully crafted questions force people to think. You can use these 100 questions to become a better thinker yourself or boost your team’s thinking.
How to Build Your Team’s Critical Thinking Skills
October 30, 2019Critical thinking is not an innate gift that can’t be learned. This research-based roadmap makes it simple to develop these in-demand skills.
Critical Thinking Roadmap Toolkit
September 16, 2019Research shows critical thinking is more important than IQ for making smart decisions. This toolkit gives you what you need to become an exceptional thinker.
Critical Thinking & The Science of Picking Winning Ideas
April 23, 2019The best criteria for selecting winning ideas will only get you so far if you don’t apply these research-backed idea evaluation practices
Critical Thinking, Not Creative Thinking, Led to Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook
April 2, 2019Great thinkers aren’t just creative geniuses. They are exceptional evaluators of ideas.
How to Create a Team Environment Where Critical Thinking Flourishes
March 12, 2019Critical thinking grows where debate is welcome. Yet, teams are often organized around reaching consensus. Here’s how to create a healthy debate culture.