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As I stated last week I leaning towards thinking I am in more of the beginner stage of critical thinking. We as individual has to realize that thinking critical is essential in our lives and workplace to function effectively in our ever changing society we need strong critical thinking skills. I think now more than ever employers are looking for their employees to have great critical thinking skills due to the fact there are more open to new ideas and a wiliness to have a very open mind when it comes to new concept and have a boarder way of thinking. Employer are looking for people who think outside box and see things from all perspective.

WEISSER, L. Facing the Future: What skills will your employees need?.Canadian Learning Journal. 16, 1, 23-25, 2012. ISSN: 14908743. In this article Weisser ask a great questions I thought What can you do, as a learning and development professional, to help employees gain creative and critical thinking skills? He also, went on to say “critical thinking must include a questioning of assumptions, including our own assumptions. Our thinking may be unclear, inaccurate, imprecise, irrelevant, narrow, shallow, illogical, or trivial, due to ignorance or misapplication of the appropriate learned skills of thinking. According to him, learning and development professionals should model a willingness to question all assumptions. He also maintains that the core skill needed for creative and critical thinking is attitude— an attitude that is always open to learning, curious about the world—or, what he calls” “life in perpetual Beta.” …show more content…

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