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How to Choose the Best Airline for Your Travel
I travel often for work, and have become quite critical of the airlines I choose. Frontier, United, Continental, Southwest, American, Virgin, Delta- each have their own unique advantages and...
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Can I Really Improve My Thinking Skills Through a Report?
The launch of the Watson-Glaser II marked a significant step for Pearson TalentLens. With more business-specific content and three new reports, it’s our most complete assessment solution. Here’s a...
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Critical Thinking Boot Camp- New York City- June 5th-6th
The New York Institute of Finance (in conjunction with Executive Development Associates and Pearson TalentLens) is hosting a Critical Thinking Boot Camp in New York City on June 5th and 6th. This...
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What’s Your Thinking Style? Join This Free Webcast to Find Out!
Pearson TalentLens would like to offer you an exciting development opportunity on August 7th! Thinking styles are behaviors and positive habits that promote thinking clearly. We all use a variety of...
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What is the Toughest Step in Critical Thinking?
No one ever said critical thinking is easy. It takes work. Hard work. It takes a conscious effort to improve the way you naturally think. But what is the toughest step in critical thinking? Is it...
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Take the New York Times Critical Thinking Challenge
This week the New York Times released a fun new feature that tests your critical thinking skills. It’s called Test Yourself and so far they’ve posted 4 challenge questions. Here are links to the first...
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The Latest in Critical Thinking eLearning- Demo the Critical Thinking...
Do you want to offer Critical Thinking training to your employees, but don’t have the time or resources to develop the program yourself? Then the Critical Thinking University might be the perfect...
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Stop and Think; Change the Rules
Last week I talked about how I think the most difficult step in Critical Thinking is the first one: Stop and Think. Today I spotted a funny picture that illustrates how often we make decisions without...
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Pearson Receives Top 20 Rank in TrainingIndustry.com’s Content Development...
Recently, Pearson was named a Top Training Company by TrainingIndustry.com. Specifically, Pearson was ranked in the Top 20 organizations for Content Development. This is a very prestigious award and...
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You Only See What You Are Willing to See
Have you ever watched the TV show Ancient Aliens on the History Channel? It’s a fantastic and highly entertaining example of confirmation bias. The premise of the show is that many historical events,...
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How to Teach Critical Thinking
“Is it even possible to train critical thinking?” I get that question all the time, and the answer is yes, but it takes a lot of work and the right approach. Critical Thinking is not something that...
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The Critical Thinking – Physical Fitness Connection
Dr. Judy Chartrand, author of the My Thinking Styles assessment and co-author of Now You’re Thinking!, asked a group of webcast attendees a great question recently. She asked “how many of you, at some...
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What is Critical Thinking University?
How do you make good managers great? How do you innovate as an organization? Through improved critical thinking — the #1 skill for 21st century employee development and raw material for problem...
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When Policy Overrides Common Sense
Have you ever experienced a situation at work where someone has made a bad decision and the company decides that a new policy is the solution? What if companies could focus on teaching their employees...
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The Best Books on Critical Thinking
How are you working to improve your critical thinking skills? Through in-person training programs? Online learning? Brain teasers and puzzles? What about through reading books on critical thinking?...
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Free Webinar Tomorrow: Forget the Social Media Policy
Sign up now for tomorrow’s free webinar: Forget the Social Media Policy – Take the Critical Thinking Approach Tuesday, Jun 10 2014 3:00pm EDT 21st Century recruiters, sales, and marketing professionals...
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So You Think You Can Think Critically?: My Critical Thinking University Story
So you think you can think critically? I thought I could, too. As a college student, I had been tasked with making a handful of life-changing decisions in the past couple of years: What should my major...
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The Bread of the RED Model Sandwich
Have you ever tried to make a sandwich without the bread? Maybe you have, but your end result was probably more of a mess than a sandwich. It was during the writing process of the book Now You’re...
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LinkedIn Publishing and Your Impending Termination
There are two kinds of people on LinkedIn- those who use the LinkedIn Publishing service to broadcast blog posts and those who absolutely hate the LinkedIn Publishing feature! I don’t currently use the...
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70 Questions to Boost Your Critical Thinking
In each step of the RED Model of Critical Thinking, the key is to ask questions. Asking questions helps us look more deeply at the issue, break it into parts, find blind spots and lack of data, and...
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