🌟 Boost Your Critical Thinking Skills 🌟In an era where decision-making matters more than ever, it's crucial to hone our critical thinking skills. According to PwC, 77% of employers in financial services believe these skills are paramount, surpassing even digital expertise. And guess what? It applies to most industries too!So, how can you become a master critical thinker? 🤔🔍 Stop accepting information blindly. Take time to evaluate and question what you read or hear.🔓 Be open to multiple answers and ideas. Embrace the power of diverse perspectives.💡 Reflect on your thoughts, decisions, and experiences. Identify areas for improvement in your critical thinking.💫 Need a framework? Try the STAR ⭐️ method: ✴️ Situation: Set the scene and provide crucial details. ✴️ Task: Describe your responsibility in that situation. ✴️ Action: Explain the steps you took to address it. ✴️ Result: Share the outcomes your actions achieved. Remember, improving your critical thinking skills can lead to better decision-making, conflict resolution, and resource optimization. Let's unfold our potential by equipping ourselves with this vital skill set! #CriticalThinking #PersonalDevelopment #ThoughtLeadership #ProfessionaDevelopment #DecisionMaking
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The ability to process information, make decisions and solve difficult problems matters more than ever in the workplace. Day to day, too many people get involved in unnecessary conflict, make poor decisions and waste organizational resources because they fail to stop and think intentionally and deliberately. According to PwC, 77% of employers in financial services say that critical thinking skills are crucial for their business, compared with digital skills at 70%. The same goes for most other industries! The first step to thinking critically is to stop automatically accepting what you read or hear...and take time to evaluate first. Effective critical thinkers are open to multiple answers and ideas. They seek to take in all of the evidence to understand why something is (or isn’t) working.They gather enough information to prevent procrastination and progress with decision making. The best way to improving critical thinking skills is through reflection. Take time to reflect on your thoughts, decisions, and experiences to identify areas for improving critical thinking. If you need a little help, the STAR ⭐️ method is a simple self-assessment tool that adds structure to your reflection. Use STAR to consider: ✴️Situation: Set the scene and give the necessary details of your example. ✴️Task: Describe what your responsibility was in that situation. ✴️Action: Explain exactly what steps you took to address it. ✴️Result: Share what outcomes your actions achieved. #criticalthinking #criticalthinkingskills #professionaldevelopment #personaldevelopment