Reason to Think...

…Or are you too busy to think?

What happen if we don’t think critically?

-         Effect the quality of our work and performance

-         Effect the quality of our decision (hasty decision/ conclusion)

o       That’s Easy, When do we start

o       Will not work, Can’t do that

-         Effect to colleagues and subordinates- they will easily recognized it

How to Develop Critical thinking?

-         Challenging your own patterns and mechanisms together with your team.

-         Asking questions to colleagues or to oneself- WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?

-         Keep an open mind: find another solution and comparing

-         Think outside the box: be stupid, be unreal, be ridiculous, be outrageous, be out of this world…HAVE FUN!

-         Focus and be objective

-         Test and run the solution

-         Create a groundswell of thinking- by working together with different personalities

-         Turn negative judgment into positive one

Judgment

-         Negative

-         “That’s never going to work”

-         “Can’t do that”

-         “Have tried that and failed”

-         Positive

-         “That’s interesting”

-         “We can do it”

-         “We should try again”

Summary

-         “The impossible we can do immediately, miracle takes a little longer”,

-         “Change your thinking and you will change your life”.