Chapter 16- Thinking Skills in the Workplace

To put off deciding or doing something

• prioritize
• generalize
• procrastinate 
• brainstorming 

Standards of judgement 

• criteria
• assumptions
• consequence
• analogy 

To order tasks from most to least important

• logic
• analyze
• prioritize
• assume

An effect or outcome of a decision 

• consequence 
• criterion
• assumption
• analogy

To come up with many different ideas without judging them 

• logic
• analyze
• assume 
• brainstorm 

seeming similarity between one thing and another that are otherwise dissimilar 

• prioritize
• assume
• analogy
• criteria

Beliefs you take for granted

• consequences
• assumptions
• brainstorming 
• priority 

When you considering the consequences of a decision you are making at work, ask yourself

• "What risks and rewards are involved?"
• How does this decision directly affect me 
• How does this decision affect my team, department and company
• all of the above

Valid reasoning 

• consequences
• assumptions 
• logic
• criteria

If you have reviewed your options and cannot make up your mind, you might need more

• information
• goals 
• consequences
• facilities