A few notes about The Framework

 
Critical Thinking is:
  • Moving from Automatic to Manual Thinking
  • Purposeful
  • Being aware of the influences on your thinking
  • A Process
Critical Thinking makes a difference
  • It enables you to look at issues differently
  • It prevents a distorted picture
  • It gives you a framework to Think

Benefits of Critical Thinking
  • Clarity of problem or situation
  • Faster and Accurate conclusions and Quality decisions
  • A richer Variety of choices, explanations and solutions.
  • Opportunity recognition, Mistake avoidance
  • Reduced errors and redo's
  • Improved Communications
  • Thought out strategies, Early elimination of dead-ends
The Framework
  • Clarity - Getting Clear on the issue, problem or goal
    • Inspection, Why, So What, Need, Anticipatory Thinking
  • Conclusions - Coming to a conclusion / solution about what to do
    • Facts, Observations, Experiences, Assumptions, Beliefs, Influence and Persuade
  • Decisions - Taking action on the Conclusion
    • Who, When, Need, Criteria