It’s important to apply critical thinking to fill out cognitive blind spots, to see through character, to perceive potential, to make sound judgments, and ensure the right people are put into the right positions to solve right problems effectively.
The essence of critical thinking is careful deliberation, examination, and testing of assumptions, and consideration of opposing views: Whether for career development, self-development, selection, promotion, talent assessments are really about ascertaining the individual's "current state" - a snapshot of where they are at that moment of time; also predict their “to be” state, their potential to be who they want to become. Be aware of your unconscious bias though, keep reminding yourself that you need to observe deeper, respect others, build mind connections, and should not allow your biases to prevent you from making sound judgments. Oftentimes, people misjudge others based on the superficial criteria or wrong standards; people misjudge others based on their own narrow lenses, without listening to the two sides of the story. People get de-energized with the negative vibes, unfair treatment and the business suffers from lower employee morale and engagement.
The business and the world change so fast, you simply cannot make sound judgments based on the mindset shaped decades ago. Either assessing people or situation, in order to allow a correct assessment, the guard has to be lowered and in order to understand correctly, you really need the acumen and power to probe in very deep level, have a strong tool such as critical thinking into the hands of the assessor, which holds the capacity to allow you a much deeper ingress into the heart of problems, careful deliberation, examination, and testing of assumptions, and consideration of opposing views for shaping an objective view or solving problems effectively.
Critical thinkers apparently include reading between the lines; digging deeper about peoples’ mindset, attitude, and behavior: Within every human being, there are core ways of thinking that, when activated, genuinely and authentically unlock their maximum potential to create value. So the company would probably need to demonstrate that their method of selection based on their evaluation of 'mind-set' was related to the job, valid and reliable. From a people management perspective, if you want to create a truly high-performance team, you have to understand your people at the deep level, dig through their mindsets and discover their characters - “the diamond in the rough.” The thought process, attitude, behavior, and outcome need to be assessed objectively and cohesively, to truly understand the talented employee as a whole about “who they really are'' consistently. Insightful digital leaders and professionals with “discovery eyes” can see through the characters, assess attitude, discover potentials, and evaluate performance.
Many talent managers argue that the assessment of people is probably not a single construct, and is simply too vague and ambiguous and not measurable in any meaningful way- valid, reliable sense. The assessment should not only measure thinking, but also teach the person how to tap into their most powerful and brilliant modes of thinking anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances. Unleashing potential either for individuals or businesses is about how to discover the “raw” or innate abilities, and how to strengthen the strength to develop a unique set of competencies. Collectively, think critically and creatively, to reprogram collective minds with new mentalities, norms and behaviors to unlock business performance.
Critical thinking is to apply the objective or rational analysis and evaluation of people or issues to either make judgments or decisions: There is a different talent requirement to fit in different positions, and organizations have their own talent strategy. Each organization must be able to articulate clearly what constitutes “talent.” and how to use talent wisely. Business leaders keep pondering: How can you evaluate the right people with the right mindset, capabilities, skills, how shall you assess evaluators as well? How do you define the right problem, the complexity level of problems, and how can you solve them in better ways? They need to apply critical thinking to do the objective or rational analysis and evaluation of people or issues objectively. It involves multidimensional thinking, multiple smart processes to evaluate people and problems impartially.
There is a need to apply critical thinking to evaluate the performance of employees in a more objective and continuous way. Skill assessment is important to ensure seamless strategy management. Assess job fit or competencies as they relate to performance is part of human capital management. Getting input from a broad range of personalities and cognitive differences of people on the particular matter. Critical thinking is the process with reasoned consideration of evidence, context, conceptualizations, methods, criteria, and rational analysis and evaluation of people or issues to either make judgments or decisions. Study people's performance via assessments, utility analysis and other methods which help companies evaluate the value they are getting from their people.
People are the most important asset, but often the weakest link in the business. The real critical thinking far outweighs the conventional critical thinking techniques, such as reason, logic, calculation, and conscious weighing of expected outcomes, etc. It’s important to apply critical thinking to fill out cognitive blind spots, to see through character, to perceive potential, to make sound judgments, and ensure the right people are put into the right positions to solve right problems effectively.
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