Critical Thinking Application
When one hears the words critical thinking, one may automatically become intimidated by past coworkers and colleagues. The thought of critical thinking recalls a company that had a number of self-proclaimed critical thinkers. They walked around with books in their hands titled “Crucial Conversations” and “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.” Their definitions of thinking became apparent when serving as an associate with this organization and defined critical thinking as the norm in their society. These groups of colleagues testified to their knowledge and ability to think outside the box and well prepared to tell their stories about how well they fit into an organization that grows rapidly. One thing they forgot to mention was that they did not practice critical thinking, only preached it to the rest of the organizations staff members. They made it well-known some colleagues were definitely not part of that elite group, according to their standards. As one Human Resources Manager stated, some are not capable of thinking critically in this arena due mostly to the processes the organization used to conduct business. Employees were fearful when preparing documentation for a training course, for example, and scrutinized for not organizing their thoughts and not thinking about the company and how they operate. Therefore, many started to pick up and carry these books around with the hopes that they could indeed fit into the crowd of self-proclaimers. Eventually, they came to the conclusion about thinking and that they indeed did have some critical thinking skills, but needed to explore more approaches to the process. It was not long after that a few discovered this company was not where they wanted to work and decided to start looking for a job elsewhere. One individual enrolled in coursework at a local university and