1 Barriers to Critical Thinking Teri-Ann Phillip Instructor: James Nobis HUM/115 07/30/2015 Barriers to Critical Thinking There are many barriers that can, and do affect us from thinking critically. Mostly these barriers can impede our abilities and cause a lack of effectiveness in our decision-making skills. Can also result in poor choices that create undesired effects. It is best to think things through to the best of one's abilities. The Self-Serving Bias One barrier to critical thinking is self-serving biases.
A team cannot be effective if there is confusion and chaos in the tasks. Each person's contributions are important, so each person needs to know what is expected of them at all times. It is also important for the team to be organized, so that at any given time they can meet to discuss the project at hand and see the progress that is being made my each individual team member and to see if any changes should be made. If there is a lack of communication or if confusion runs amok, then the effectiveness and efficiency of a team will be negatively impacted. "Almost
1. How would you define “Frozen Preferences” and what is the impact of this concept on strategy formulation, alternative analysis and recommendation? • Managers don’t like to make major strategic changes once decisions have been made (except in the case of overwhelming evidence) as they will look unprepared and ineffective and their creditability is damaged • Frozen preferences o Management has made a decision and over time analysis shows that their decision may not be the best choice o However they feel compelled to maintain their current strategy even if it is not the best course of action. • As management preferences becomes a larger part of the organization (personnel changes, budgets etc), it becomes more and more difficult to change direction. o A tendency to avoid reversing changes even if it was not the best choice o In reality, past expenditures are sunk costs and the organization should use a clean slate to look at new choices, but to the manager, this will come at great personal loss.
Closed ended questions limit the user’s ability to provide detail in their answer as these are usually multiple choices, true or false, or function on a rating system. As an analyst working to develop a better system for Riordan, it is important to ask open ended questions as they “are usually used to probe for information when you cannot anticipate all possible responses or when you do not know the precise question to ask.” (University of Phoenix,
The three attributes that I saw I needed to improve on when I was working on my self assessment worksheet where, commitment, communication, and adaptability. Adaptability is something that i have struggled with for a long time. When a plan changes or I am caught off guard with something new, I feel overwhelmed and start to freak out. There are a couple things I believe that I should do to help this problem. First, I should not freak out because that does not help the situation at all and it just stresses me and the people around me out.
Internal conflict is when you ask yourself questions about what is right and is wrong, if it corresponds with ones moral and values or does it go against them, it is generally a result of what is occurring in a persons life. Conflict can also arise with others when two conflicts opinions and views meet, this brings a sense of inner conflict on whether to say what’s in ones mind or continue to uphold the beliefs one has. Only through conflict we can learn to adjust, transform and learn from it allowing ourselves to better ourselves. At some point in a persons life everybody experiences some sort of inner conflict that can be of higher complexity than just fighting a urge. Pressing issues can cause doubt and anxiety with in a person and which is proven through psychology can cause stress.
This approach results in the passive resistance from the members of teams while requiring the consistent pressure as well as direction from the leader for getting things done. This approach is not considered appropriate for achieving the effective performance from teams. It can be said that this style can be appropriate for urgent actions or when the subordinates reflect their preference for this style (Muller, et al.,
However, there is a danger in thinking that we can always overcome problems that come up. The ironic fact is that life is not a smooth road. Hence, we need to be realistic about it. Setting a goal that is obviously impossible to achieve will end up frustrating us to the point where we give up on our goals or worse, we can’t move on with our lives. We need an option, and being optimistic may give us false promises or facades to see one thing and create inability to be resilient with the other available options.
Communication Process Model How does it work theoretically? The communication process is difficult at best. Although always communicating, human beings are rarely capable of making themselves perfectly understood. The failure of the process lies in the process itself. This document will present the components of the communication process, will discuss the dynamic of the process, and will suggest where the problems occur in the process.
The Decision Making Process: How Critical and Creative Thinking Play a Role Decision making is one of the most complicated tasks to be completed; however, for many of us the ability to make a decision clearly and effectively comes naturally. We merely do not like to make the effort and put the time into analyzing and reaching the most desirable outcome. Learning to utilize critical and creative thought processes would eliminate some of the obstacles we run into while making a decision or solving a problem. With learning to think critically and creatively, one is learning to analyze, evaluate, conceptualize, apply, and synthesize the information placed before them and find the most reliable decision or answer. The Decision We all face and make difficult decisions in our life.