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Performance
Management
ThinkingSkills
Thinking Skills Strategic
Management
Skill
Enhancement
Thinkingskillsarethemental
activitiesyouusetoprocess
activitiesyouusetoprocess
Trainingand
information,makeconnections, Learning
makedecisions,andcreatenew Coaching
ideas.Youuseyourthinkingskills
whenyoutrytomakesenseof
experiences,solveproblems,make
Educational
decisions,askquestions,make
Learning
plans,ororganizeinformation.
Everybodyhasthinkingskills,butnot
everyoneusesthemeffectively. Personal
Effectivethinkingskillsaredeveloped Effectiveness
overaperiodoftime.Goodthinkers Mental
seepossibilitieswhereotherssee Conditioning
onlyobstaclesorroadblocks.Good
Learning
thinkersareabletomakeconnection
betweenvariousfactorsandbeable Thinking
totiethemtogether.Theyarealso Teaching
abletodevelopnewandunique
solutionstoproblems.
Thinkingreferstotheprocessof
creatingalogicalseriesofconnective Athletics
facetsbetweenitemsofinformation.
Oftentimes,thinkingjusthappens Physical
automatically.However,thereare Development
timeswhenyouconsciouslythink.It Mental
maybeabouthowtosolvea Conditioning
problemormakingadecision.
MindBody
Thinkingenablesyoutoconnectand
Connection
integratenewexperiencesintoyour
existingunderstandingand Skill
perceptionofhowthingsare. Enhancement
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Thesimplestthinkingskillsare Training
learningfactsandrecall,whilehigher
learningfactsandrecall,whilehigher
Coaching
orderskillsincludeanalysis,
orderskillsinclude analysis,
synthesis,problemsolving,and
synthesis,problemsolving,and
evaluation..
evaluation
About Us
CoreThinkingSkills
AboutUs
Thinkingskillsarecognitive
operationsorprocessesthatarethe Ourmission
buildingblocksofthinking.Thereare istoprovide
severalcorethinkingskillsincluding the
focusing,organizing,analyzing, knowledge,
evaluatingandgenerating. skills,and
tools
Focusingattendingtoselected
Focusingattendingtoselected necessaryto
piecesofinformationwhileignoring enable
otherstimuli. individuals
Rememberingstoringandthen
Rememberingstoringandthen andteams
retrievinginformation.
retrievinginformation. toperformto
their
Gatheringbringingtotheconscious
Gatheringbringingtotheconscious maximum
mindtherelativeinformationneeded potential.
forcognitiveprocessing.
forcognitiveprocessing. Read
More
More
Organizingarranginginformation
Organizingarranginginformation
Continue
soitcanbeusedmoreeffectively.
Reading
Analyzingbreakingdown
Analyzing breakingdown
AboutUs
informationbyexaminingpartsand
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relationshipssothatits
organizationalstructuremaybe
understood.
understood.
Connectingmakingconnections
Connectingmakingconnections
betweenrelateditemsorpiecesof
information.
Development
Series
SkillBuilder
Mental
Conditioning
ToolBox
Skill
Integratingconnectingand
Integrating connectingand
combininginformationtobetter
Builder
understandtherelationshipbetween
theinformation.
Compilingputtingpartstogetherto
Compilingputtingpartstogetherto
formawholeorbuildingastructure
Tool Box
orpatternfromdiverseelements. Mental
Conditioning
Evaluatingassessingthe
Evaluatingassessingthe
reasonablenessandqualityofideas Learning
ormaterialsonordertopresentand
defendopinions.
Generatingproducingnew
Generatingproducingnew
information,ideas,products,orways Interpersonal
ofviewingthings. Skills
Leadership
Change
Management
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Conflict
Resolution
Teambuilding
Emotional
Intelligence
Personal
E ectiveness
GoalSetting
Mental
Classificationsand Conditioning
TypesofThinking Problem
Solving
ConvergentorAnalytical
ConvergentorAnalyticalThinking:
Thinking: Time
Bringingfactsanddatatogether Management
fromvarioussourcesandthen
fromvarioussourcesandthen
Decision
applyinglogicandknowledgeto
Making
solveproblemsortomakeinformed
decisions. Critical
Thinking
Divergentthinking:Breakingatopic
Divergentthinking: Breakingatopic
Emotional
aparttoexploreitsvarious
Intelligence
componentsandthengenerating
newideasandsolutions.
CriticalThinking:
Critical Thinking:Analysisand
Analysisand
Recent
evaluationofinformation,beliefs,or
Posts
knowledge.
CreativeThinking:Generationofnew
CreativeThinking:Generationofnew
TheBest
ideasbreakingfromestablished
AdviceI
thoughts,theories
thoughts,theories,rules,and
,rules,and
EverGot
procedures.
Stuckina
Hole
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TheMexican
Fisherman
Stonesoup
NewYears
Resolution
Strategies
Metacognition
Thinkingaboutthinkingiscalled Articles
Metacognition.Itisahigherorder
SelectMonth
thinkingthatenablesunderstanding,
analysis,andcontrolofyour
cognitiveprocesses.Itcaninvolve
planning,monitoring,assessing,and
evaluatingyouruseofyourcognitive
skills.
ThinkingSkills
Inthesimplestform,convergent
thinkingordeductivereasoninglooks
inwardtofindasolution,while
divergentorcreativethinkinglooks
outwardforasolution.
Boththinkingskillsareessentialfor
schoolandlife.Bothrequirecritical
thinkingskillstobeeffective.Both
areusedforsolvingproblems,doing
projectsandachievingobjectives.
However,muchofthethinkingin
formaleducationfocusesonthe
convergentanalyticalthinkingskills
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suchasfollowingormakingalogical
argument,eliminatingtheincorrect
pathsandthenfiguringoutthesingle
correctanswer.
StandardizedtestssuchasIQtests
onlymeasureconvergentthinking.
Patternrecognition,logicthought
flow,andtheabilitytosolve
problemswithasingleanswercanall
betestedandgraded.Althoughitis
anextremelyvaluableskill,thereare
noaccuratetestsabletomeasure
divergentorcreativethinkingskills.
Links
Types of thinking
Critical thinking
Blooms Taxonomy
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Mind Mapping
Chunking Information
Brainstorming
CriticalThinkingskills
DivergentandConvergentthinking
skillsarebothcriticalthinking
skills.
Criticalthinkingreferstotheprocess
Criticalthinkingreferstotheprocess
ofactivelyanalyzing,synthesizing,
and/orevaluatingandreflectingon
informationgatheredfrom
observation,experience,or
communicationandisfocusedon
decidingwhattobelieveordo.
decidingwhattobelieveordo.
Criticalthinkingisconsidereda
higherorderthinkingskills,suchas
analysis,synthesis,andproblem
solving,inference,andevaluation.
Theconceptofhigherorderthinking
skillsbecamewellknownwiththe
publicationofBloomstaxonomyof
educationalobjectives.Blooms
educationalobjectives.Blooms
Taxonomywasprimarilycreatedfor
Taxonomy wasprimarilycreatedfor
academiceducationhowever,itis
relevanttoalltypesoflearning.
Oftentimeswhenpeopleare
problemsolvingordecisionmaking,
heorsheflipsbackandforth
betweenconvergentanddivergent
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thinking.Whenfirstlookingata
problem,peopleoftenanalyzethe
factsandcircumstancestodetermine
therootcause.Afterwhich,they
explorenewandinnovativeoptions
throughdivergentthinking,then
switchbacktoconvergentthinkingto
limitthosedowntoonepractical
option.
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