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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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80 Ways to Think Better

Be Your Devil’s Advocate Assign a Devil’s Advocate in meetings Disagree Ask Why Use the RED Model of Critical Thinking Try a Brain Teaser Recognize your biases Test a hypothesis Pretend it’s April...

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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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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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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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The Best Critical Thinking Articles of 2014

Critical-Thinkers.com has produced numerous articles on critical thinking this year, but we are not the only ones talking about the importance of critical thinking. To show our appreciation for others...

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The Bread of the RED Model Sandwich

Have you ever tried to make a sandwich without the bread? Maybe you have, but your end result was probably more of a mess than a sandwich. It was during the writing process of the book Now You’re...

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We Can Be Taught; You Just Need to Teach Us

If you were to guess what percentage of 4-year college graduates are rated by their employers as having excellent critical thinking skills, what percentage would you guess? Valuing higher education as...

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So You Think You Can Think Critically?: My Critical Thinking University Story

So you think you can think critically? I thought I could, too. As a college student, I had been tasked with making a handful of life-changing decisions in the past couple of years: What should my major...

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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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2014 Resolution: Think Big, Do Epic Things

The end of the year is such a busy time.  You’re probably trying to find an Ugly Christmas Sweater to wear to a party, staging the Elf on the Shelf again, searching Pinterest for the perfect holiday...

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The Critical Thinking – Physical Fitness Connection

Dr. Judy Chartrand, author of the My Thinking Styles assessment and co-author of Now You’re Thinking!, asked a group of webcast attendees a great question recently.  She asked “how many of you, at some...

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How to Teach Critical Thinking

“Is it even possible to train critical thinking?”  I get that question all the time, and the answer is yes, but it takes a lot of work and the right approach. Critical Thinking is not something that...

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Pearson Receives Top 20 Rank in TrainingIndustry.com’s Content Development...

Recently, Pearson was named a Top Training Company by TrainingIndustry.com.  Specifically, Pearson was ranked in the Top 20 organizations for Content Development.  This is a very prestigious award and...

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The Latest in Critical Thinking eLearning- Demo the Critical Thinking...

Do you want to offer Critical Thinking training to your employees, but don’t have the time or resources to develop the program yourself?  Then the Critical Thinking University might be the perfect...

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What is the Toughest Step in Critical Thinking?

No one ever said critical thinking is easy.  It takes work.  Hard work. It takes a conscious effort to improve the way you naturally think. But what is the toughest step in critical thinking? Is it...

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What’s Your Thinking Style? Join This Free Webcast to Find Out!

Pearson TalentLens would like to offer you an exciting development opportunity on August 7th! Thinking styles are behaviors and positive habits that promote thinking clearly. We all use a variety of...

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Now You’re Thinking with Heather Ishikawa on DriveThruHR

In case you missed the last 2 BlogTalkRadio interviews by John Maketa and Heather Ishikawa (co-authors of Now You’re Thinking), then be sure to listen to DriveThruHR today (Dec 23rd) at Noon CT....

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Best Critical Thinking Posts of 2011

We wrote 149 posts on this blog about critical thinking in 2011.  We’ve covered everything from Devil’s Advocates to eating walnuts.  We’ve analyzed decisions by Southwest Airlines, Zappos, Panera,...

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What is the Cost of Poor Critical Thinking?

Each year around this time HR pros write blog posts about the real cost of a bad hire (meaning someone who is ineffective or even destructive to the organization).  The latest statistic I read was...

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