Critical Thinking Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Critical Thinking Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Critical Thinking related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Critical Thinking specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Critical Thinking Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 997 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Critical Thinking improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 997 standard requirements:


1. Can maps of risky decision making and maps of planned problem solving be generalized to assist large numbers of people to reach better decision outcomes when faced with similar issues?
   
   

2. What stands in the way of adopting a training model and culture that supports the development of critically thinking leaders with enhanced skills in managing human behavior?
   
   

3. What are the assumptions, strengths and weaknesses of different approaches and methods regarding the nature of problem contexts, that is, different kinds of social reality?
   
   

4. Do your team and your organization have the critical thinking skills and analysis techniques to rapidly identify, analyze and articulate essential business requirements?
   
   

5. Do you consider education to innovation as an education based on critical thinking, observation and analysis, civic and human rights as well as media and digital use?
   
   

6. Does critical thinking experience in particular domain areas lend itself to more effective transfer of critical thinking skills to other domain areas?
   
   

7. How might you radically reimagine the design of digital learning environments and realize the potential of critical instructional design in practice?
   
   

8. Is it increased accuracy, timeliness, improved writing skills, improved readability of products, influencing policy, or improved critical thinking?
   
   

9. Why would it be of value to you to have the cognitive skills of interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, explanation, and self regulation?
   
   

10. What kinds of information or factual data does your organization need to function effectively and solve the problems that it exists to solve?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Critical Thinking book in PDF containing 997 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Critical Thinking self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Critical Thinking Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Critical Thinking areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Critical Thinking Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Critical Thinking projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Critical Thinking Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Critical Thinking project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Variance Analysis: Are indirect costs accumulated for comparison with the corresponding budgets?
   
   

2. Cost Management Plan: Are Critical Thinking project team members involved in detailed estimating and scheduling?
   
   

3. Human Resource Management Plan: Based on your Critical Thinking project communication management plan, what worked well?
   
   

4. Risk Audit: What resources are needed to achieve program results?
   
   

5. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Which resource planning tool provides information on resource responsibility and accountability?
   
   

6. Issue Log: How is this initiative related to other portfolios, programs, or Critical Thinking projects?
   
   

7. Project Scope Statement: Will the risk plan be updated on a regular and frequent basis?
   
   

8. Roles and Responsibilities: To decide whether to use a quality measurement, ask how will you know when it is achieved?
   
   

9. Risk Audit: Assessing risk with analytical procedures: do systemsthinking tools help auditors focus on diagnostic patterns?
   
   

10. Planning Process Group: Is the Critical Thinking project making progress in helping to achieve the set results?


 
Step-by-step and complete Critical Thinking Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Critical Thinking project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Critical Thinking project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Critical Thinking project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Critical Thinking project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Critical Thinking project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Critical Thinking project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Critical Thinking project with this in-depth Critical Thinking Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Critical Thinking projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Critical Thinking and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Critical Thinking investments work better.

This Critical Thinking All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.