Critical Thinking is a must-have skill for your company culture, especially to be applied in producing meaningful work deliverables.

In addition to helping you evaluate workplace information and issues better for enhanced decision-making and problem-solving, it positions you as a credible employee with a well-informed thought process.

How to improve your Critical Thinking?

Here are 3 key principles you can apply, using the 3 R's:

• Reasoning
• Reliability
• Relevance

1. Reasoning

A core fundamental of Critical Thinking is evaluating whethere there is a coherent and logical reasoning process when addressing the issue at hand.

Common examples at the workplace include:

• Thought process reasoning in preparing reports
• Thought process reasoning when making decisions
• Thought process reasoning for probing root causes of issues

Don't just take things at face value. Evaluate the arguments for/against them and whether the reasoning process is sensible.

2. Reliability

As part of completing your work, you will likely need to gather, interpret and also be shared by others vast amount of information.

You need to ensure the information you have and received is reliable. Do your necessary filtering and validation of the available information. Only then, will your resulting work deliverables be reliable as well.

Some areas of consideration:

• Opinion or Fact?
• Emotional or Rational?
• Potential bias?
• Source of and verifiable?

This supports your overall thought process in being fact-focused and help reduce misinformation and disinformation, improving your overall discernment.

3. Relevance

In attempting to navigate and solving complex issues at work, remember to only take into account relevant considerations.

This is oftentimes a challenge in practicing Critical Thinking, yet a necessary one to ensure you are actually addressing and connecting the appropriate point to the appropriate issue.

This is especially so when you are ideating and choosing solutions for your workplace problems. You want to be implementing the right solutions for and to address the right problems.

Concluding remarks

Desbite being a highly debated academic area, Critical Thinking is also a highly practical and valuable workplace skill that you can develop with conscious effort and practice.

Continue sharpening your Critical Thinking skill, applying the principles of Reasoning, Reliability and Relevance for better-informed outcomes at work for your company culture.

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