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6 vital workplace skills you’ll need to succeed in the future

Career Advancement

Critical thinking ability. Utilizing data also requires strong critical thinking abilities, which will help employees craft valuable recommendations. Enhancing their critical thinking ability will help employees make great decisions, trust their own judgment, and gain the trust of others.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Not a Creativity Killer

Lateral Action

Everyone knows critical thinking kills creativity. Suspending judgment in order to come up with new and unusual ideas is one of the sacred cows of the creativity movement. Everyone knows that instant judgment is the enemy of creativity. Edward de Bono, Serious Creativity ). Tague, Brainstorming ).

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14 Ways to Increase Creativity, Backed By Research [And Why it Matters]

She Owns Success

Use a little constraint to stimulate creativity You’ve probably heard the saying you can’t rush the creative process. A study published in the Creativity Research Journal found that collaboration was positively correlated to increased creativity. A great reason to make your team meetings walking meetings.

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Is Brainstorming a Waste of Time?

Lateral Action

Richard Huntington, Director of Strategy for Saatchi & Saatchi in the UK, has a pathological hatred of brainstorming : I hate brainstorms. And so six months ago I cleansed my professional life of this trojan horse of mediocrity, favouring aggregated individual working or two person thinking sessions. Photo by jurvetson.