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instructions.docxThis is a Case Study about you. (me)
As you reflect your readings and experience in this class, please comment on the following items. Since this is about you, first person writing is encouraged. Focus your responses on personal and professional application and how they may have evolved over the past seven weeks.
· Your Problem Solving Strategies
· Your Critical Thinking Style
· Sharing Fact versus Opinion
· Personal and Professional Application - Have you or will you apply?
Specific Case Study Guidelines:
• The paper must follow APA 6th edition formatting with a cover page and reference page
• THe paper is to be written in Time New Roman, 12-point font and double spaced
• All papers must have a cover page, introduction, headings in the body, and conclusion.
· A minimum of three peer-reviewed sources must be used
Supplemental Reading
My Critical thinking Case Study for reference to work on the case study above
Thinking Styles Assessment
Introduction
The purpose of this paper is describe my critical thinking after taking an assessment of my thinking styles on the “Talent Lens Website”. Will be describing the top two thinking styles and sharing a few examples related to the thinking styles. This will help describe me and my way of thinking.
Open-Minded
After going through the online assessment from the “Talent Lens Website”, the results of the primary thinking style was open-minded. I agree with open-minded as first on this assessment, it is very easy to adapt to any kind of environment and to different places around the world. The biggest example is when moving from Puerto Rico to Orlando Florida alone in August, 2005. It was an amazing experience learning new cultures from different part of the world, knowing new people with different backgrounds and adapting to a new environment. After a year went to Miami for a few months accepting the idea of getting a new job in Industrial Engineer and accepting an offer to move to Seattle on January 2007. In Seattle was a different ball game and a new journey in the professional world as Industrial Engineer in an aerospace environment very new and the first time for me. A place with a different kind of weather, snow during the winter and raining most of the time. After a year and one month an opportunity to travel to Italy show up. Without any hesitation the travel to Italy become true and spend four years working in a new environment with a different culture compare with Seattle. Yes open-minded can describe the way I think for new challenges.
As an open-minded person I believe in second chances, this is what make me a person with fair minded. Helping people in career development and providing opportunities of grow is my passion. Many times when I supervise a group of people and a few make a few mistakes I just concentrate in the root cause and how can be avoided. Sometimes spending extra time in the process is better than been concentrated in the people. If the process is fix, then the people will perform accordantly. An important aspect of open-minded thinking, therefore, involves the capacity and willingness to provide reasons for choice, and autonomy in judgment depends upon this exercise (Kam, 2006).
Systematic
Systematic was the second of the thinking styles results, as a systematic person is described as a conceptual, process oriented and intuitive. Is something that is practice every day when making decisions, as a big believer of everything can be possible and finding the way to get things accomplished. At work one day there was an issue in the production floor with an installation due to ergonomics issues and no one was able to figure it out in the past. One day walking by the area that had the issue, was observed that the ergonomic environment was not per standards, quickly the process was follow and an ergonomic consultant was call to the work area to perform an assessment. Once this assessment was complete, action was put in place base on the findings and after two days the issue was resolved. This issue was happening for more than a year and was not resolved thinking that it was normal the way it was performed the installation. Logic and intuitive thinking was used to resolve the issue, this help to have a positive outcome. Studies on logical and intuitive thinking styles mainly focus on cognitive shortcut utilization, misjudgments, personal characteristics and developmental aspects (Koçak, 2013).
Other Thinking Style
The rest of the styles are Analytical, Inquisitive, Insightful, Timely and Truth Seeking. The assessment is very assertive of my thinking style and it will be very helpful to print the assessment to post it on my desk. This way I remember myself to practice the different way of critical thinking. Also the assessment can be share with co-workers and supervisors of my thinking styles, it will help them to understand me better as a person and the way I think. I’m very directive and think out of the box in many ways. I always looking for the different whys of things and share my thoughts.
Conclusion
The top two results of the assessment were Open-Minded and Systematic. These two has been my style for all my life. Since I was a child, now I just got confirmation using this assessment and will put in practice the rest of the results more often depending the situation. After a few months of practice, sharing the results with others and getting feedback, the next step is to take another assessment to improve my critical thinking. To be good at assessment requires that we consistently take apart our thinking and examine the parts with respect to standards of quality (Paul & Elder, 2002).
References
Kam, C. D. (2006). Political Campaigns and Open-Minded Thinking. Journal of Politics, 68(4), 931-945.
doi:10.1111/j.1468-2508.2006.00479.x
Koçak, C. (2013). The Effects of Process-Based Teaching Model on Student Teachers Logical/Intuitive Thinking Skills and Academic Performances. Journal of Baltic Science Education, 12(5), 640-651.
Paul, R. & Elder, L. (2002). Critical thinking: Tools for taking charge of your professional and personal life. Upper Saddle River, NJ: FT Press.
