Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking Application Paper

John Delahoyde

BSHS/MGT 350 Critical Thinking: Strategies in Decision Making

4/25/2011

Professor Marguerite Stocker

Abstract

Applying critical thinking skills and techniques within your professional career and your personal life could make deciding between two specific options easier to find the solution. Using these specific techniques can cause a person’s life to become easier when facing problems and obstacles in his or her lives. Critical thinkers will tend to make choices and rational decisions based on the evidence that presents him or her. The great and honest critical thinkers are not biased towards any decision and can think and act assertively without signs of passive-aggressiveness. Being passive-aggressive towards any choice in the decision-making process can cause the decision to be over-turned and make the individual seem as if he or she was going to be the only person to benefit from the end result instead of it being a whole. Thinking this way is so beneficial to the individuals that are exposed to the objectives and especially the people that are going to be affected by it. This should be a well thought out process and when thinking critically successfully can have significant positive outcomes to whoever is involved.

The following passage will explain the details of how and what critical thinking is and how it is used, along with personal experience when it has been use in certain scenarios. It will also include critically thinking benefits and how important it is to use these techniques towards all professional human services careers, personal life issues and corporate decision-making that we might all encounter within our professional lives. This type of thinking can be time consuming and also have stress added to it as well. So it is so important to take into consideration if each objective is worth the time and effort that it takes to put into the decision and outcome of that said decision....