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6 vital workplace skills you’ll need to succeed in the future

Career Advancement

Critical thinking ability. Utilizing data also requires strong critical thinking abilities, which will help employees craft valuable recommendations. Enhancing their critical thinking ability will help employees make great decisions, trust their own judgment, and gain the trust of others.

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Presenting to Executives: How to Have More Confidence

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re wrestling with imposter syndrome, you can even take five minutes to brainstorm your “Why I’m the most qualified to talk about this” list. You’ll gain credibility as the executives think, “Yeah, that’s EXACTLY what I was wondering. Start by drawing confidence from that.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Not a Creativity Killer

Lateral Action

Everyone knows critical thinking kills creativity. That’s the reason for the rules about no criticism and no evaluation. Tague, Brainstorming ). It's important to remember that brainstorming is a creative, not a critical or analytical process. Tom Arnold, Improve Your Brainstorming Sessions ).

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Is Brainstorming a Waste of Time?

Lateral Action

Richard Huntington, Director of Strategy for Saatchi & Saatchi in the UK, has a pathological hatred of brainstorming : I hate brainstorms. And so six months ago I cleansed my professional life of this trojan horse of mediocrity, favouring aggregated individual working or two person thinking sessions. Photo by jurvetson.

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Communication Games for Teams: Enhancing Engagement and Collaboration

Vantage Circle

This particular activity allows good brainstorming, developing teamwork, and strategic decision-making skills. Moreover, it fosters critical thinking while respecting each other through good communication. This promotes teamwork, critical thinking, and collaboration under pressure. Create a group of 3 or 4 members.

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Acceptance vs. Denial

International Coach Academy

Critical thinking – challenging a client’s thoughts: As an exercise, a coach could invite a coachee for one of the following workouts: Empty mind – the coachee plays a role when he or she clears their mind and looks at the situation without any preconceptions. However, going into uncharted water could evoke awareness.

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Best practices for creating a visual product roadmap

MindManager

Encourage critical thinking and creative problem solving. For example, you can leverage MindManager’s interactive visualization features to create decision trees, brainstorm solutions, and then organize these solutions into affinity diagrams. It is the organized output from a brainstorming session.