The Critical Thinking Toolkit: Spark Your Team's Creativity with 35 Problem Solving Activities

By Marlene Caroselli

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 Toolkit gets employees thinking better and faster with training exercises that offer an invigorating departure from the everyday and 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. Using hands-on activities and ready-to-use assessments, team members will learn how to challenge assumptions, brainstorm divergent ideas, and then pinpoint the ones that best benefit your organization. And they'll learn to do it in a way that not only increases their work quality, but also their productivity. Unimaginative. Risk-adverse. Prone to groupthink. These are not just empty complaints about today's employees. American businesses are suffering from systemic burnout resulting in a widespread lack of creativity. But this unimaginative thinking doesn't need to plague your workplace. With The Critical Thinking Toolkit, you and your team have everything you need to think quickly, analytically, and creatively.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081441740X
• ISBN13: 9780814417409
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Amacom
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher