The Critical Thinking Tool Kit: Spark Your Team's Creativity with 35 Problem Solving Activities
- 3h 5m
- Marlene Caroselli
- AMACOM
- 2011
It’s not just for geniuses. Everyone can learn to think creatively, analytically, and quickly with brain-boosting activities for the workplace.
Unimaginative. Risk-adverse. Prone to group-think. These are not just empty complaints about today’s employees. A recent article in Newsweek found solid data that proves a “creativity crisis” is plaguing America.
Yet critical thinking, the ability to approach a problem both analytically and creatively, is the bedrock of success for companies and their people. Fortunately, it’s a skill that can be learned.
The Critical Thinking Tool Kit aims to get employees thinking better and faster with 35 hands-on activities and ready-to-use assessments. Team members work on challenging assumptions, brainstorming divergent ideas, and then pinpointing the ones that best benefit an organization. And they’ll learn to do it in real-life speed—quickly!
The training exercises in The Critical Thinking Tool Kit offer an invigorating departure from the everyday—with the potential for big payoffs in the form of enhanced “on-your-feet” thinking, innovative problem-solving, and profitable idea generation from everyone on the team.
About the Author
MARLENE CAROSELLI is the author of Leadership Skills for Managers, The Big Book of Meeting Games, and Great Session Openers, Closers, and Energizers. She has trained employees and executives at many organizations, including Lockheed-Martin, Mobil, Eastman Kodak, and Allied-Signal.
In this Book
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Chapter #1: Attending to Attention
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Chapter #2: Rhymed Reductions
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Chapter #3: The Endless Question
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Chapter #4: The Questionable Question
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Chapter #5: The K-W-I-C Technique
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Chapter #6: Juxtaposed Pairs
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Chapter #7: Presidential Pursuits
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Chapter #8: The Umbrage Not Taken
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Chapter #9: Brainteasing/Brainsqueezing
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Chapter #10: Perceptual Shifts
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Chapter #11: Organizational Oxymorons
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Chapter #12: Stratification
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Chapter #13: Particular Virtues
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Chapter #14: Perspicacious Perspectives
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Chapter #15: Turnarounds
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Chapter #16: Left Is Right. So Is Right.
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Chapter #17: Ms. Matches and Mr. Matches
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Chapter #18: Cre8—Get N2It
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Chapter #19: Thinking Outside the Locks
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Chapter #20: Thinking Is an Art
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Chapter #21: A Kin to Kinesthesia
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Chapter #22: Low and High Logos
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Chapter #23: Blues on Parade
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Chapter #24: Scrambled Pegs
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Chapter #25: Crises Critiques
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Chapter #26: Trend Spotters
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Chapter #27: The Triple-A Approach
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Chapter #28: A Foolery of Fun
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Chapter #29: Patterned Organization
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Chapter #30: Pro Con’D
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Chapter #31: Direct Responses
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Chapter #32: In Your Sights
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Chapter #33: Giving Problems a Why’d Berth
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Chapter #34: Resource-Full
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Chapter #35: Living Problems, Lively Solutions
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