think siklls

What Are Thinking Skills?

1. The human brain is so powerful that few of us come anywhere near to using it as well as we could.
2. Every person has the ability to think intelligently and creatively.
3. The brain is the source of key mental faculties such as memory, imagination, creativity and innovation.
4. The brain is the key tool for mastering the modern information age.
5. Everyone in a modern organisation is a knowledge worker to some extent.
6. According to research, half the skills needed by successful workers involve the use of thinking skills.

 Positive Thinking

1. Untrained thinking is often confusing, distracted and negative.
2. Trained thinking is usually focused, confident and positive.
3. The human brain believes what we let it believe rather than what it knows to be true.
4. Worrying negatively is the same process as worrying positively so just change your focus.
5. “Yo-yo thinking” is alternately thinking things are very good or things are very bad.
6. The key to making the best use of our thoughts is to build a positive and confident self-image

Improve Your Memory

1. When we forget something it is not because of a poor memory but because of our inability to recall.
2. There are various ways to increase our power of recall, all making use of our imaginative right brains.
3. Events that are shocking, emotional and silly stay in the memory longer than things that are mundane and
normal.
4. You can remember an event more vividly when you associate it with one or more of your five senses, such as
smell or taste
5. Mnemonics are one of the best ways to remember lengthy or complex information by associating numbers
with rhyming sounds.
6. To move information from your short-term memory into your long-term memory, you need to repeat it
enough times to make it stick.

Blocks to Thinking 

1. We often make wrong assumptions about what we see because of prejudice and false expectations.
2. We each see the world differently because of our thoughts; every “thing” is a think”.
3. Thinking like a child is more open and creative because it is not layered with years of learning and habit.
4. Culturally-accepted ways of thinking can sometimes limit us to thinking in familiar ways.
5. Well-directed and well-trained thinking is always more productive than activity.
6. Successful enterprises need original thinking if they are to avoid blindly following the thinking of the
majority.

Logical Thinking

1. Ordered thinking is thinking that is analytical, sensible and systematic.
2. The left side of the brain is the seat of logical thinking.
3. The right side of the brain is the seat of imaginative thinking.
4. Logical thinking allows us to make incremental progress based on verifiable information.
5. While logical thinking relies on facts and information, information itself can be unreliable and inaccurate.
6. The analytical conscious brain is limited in the amount of information it can hold; while the creative subconscious is unlimited.

Creative thinking 

1. Creative thinking at all levels has become a necessity for organisations to stay ahead in the modern business world.
2. When you’re in the wrong hole, it’s no good digging deeper; you need to get another hole.
3. Children tend to be more curious about their world than adults.
4. One simple way to increase your creativity is to make new connections between unrelated objects and ideas.
5. Creativity requires us to open up our minds to experiences and ideas we don’t usually have.
6. A creative workplace is invariably one in which there is a large amount of humour and irreverence.

Brainstorming

1. You are likely to get more ideas from working with a group than from working on your own.
2. The drawback to working with a group is that others may have different agendas from you.
3. For groupwork to succeed, there must first be agreement on how the group is to work and make decisions.
4. Brainstorming sessions should be held in a relaxed and non-judgmental climate.
5. Be willing to try out crazy ideas in a brainstorming session.
6. Brainwriting is an improvement on brainstorming when a group is not cohesive.

Decision-Taking

1. The best decisions are hot-iron decisions made just at the right time.
2. A right decision is one which meets your aims and resources and which you are prepared to act upon.
3. The time to worry about a decision is before you take it, not afterwards.
4. You should only take a decision if it can be turned into immediate action.
5. You should only take a decision if you have no alternative.
6. Use a decision-taking model such as the Six Thinking Hats to get all angles on an issue.

Problem-Solving

1. A problem should be seen less as a threat and more as an opportunity.
2. The most important factor in determining whether you will solve a problem is your belief that there is a solution out there waiting for you.
3. Stating clearly what the problem is may lead you straight to the solution.
4. Problems are usually solved if you refuse to give up.
5. If a problem seems intractable, re-word it and look at it in a different way.
6. Reduce a problem to its bare essentials by asking successive “why?” questions.

Innovation

1. Innovation in products, services and ways of working is an imperative in the modern global economy.
2. One of the keys to innovative thinking is to have a creative sense of humour.
3. Many of the most innovative ideas come when we are away from the workplace thinking about something
else.
4. Some of the best inventions come from combining existing products in new ways.
5. To be successful with new ideas, you should expect to fail on a regular basis.
6. Many of the most remarkable discoveries were made by imitating the natural world.