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 & Decision Making
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.
Critical thinking encompasses 5 skills according to Professor Diane Halpern (creator of one of the only research-validated critical thinking assessments):
- Verbal reasoning
- Argument analysis
- Hypothesis testing
- Likelihood and uncertainty
- Decision-making and problem-solving
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.
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 skills top most lists of skills required for future jobs, but recent societal trends undermine the key thing needed for their development.
