Effective Thinker

This article takes you through the process of executing your plan of action in the real world. While the execution stage is critical to the outcome that you would like to achieve, it’s also important that you learn from your experience. This helps you lay down the foundations for your next problem-solving challenge. Specifically, the article outlines how to execute your plan of action. It highlights the need to maintain a certain level of control as you work your plan. Walks you through how to reflect and learn from your problem-solving experience. And shows you how to anticipate future problems that are yet to arise as you continue working toward your goals and objectives.

This article provides you with essential guidelines you need to lay down a solid plan of action for bringing your creative idea to fruition. The article breaks down how to envision possible future scenarios that will help bring your creative ideas into the world. It presents you with a number of thought-provoking questions to help you outline each of your scenarios with clarity and purpose. It then outlines how to evaluate each of the scenarios you came up. This helps you choose the best option moving forward. And, finally, the article explains how to engineer a plan of action to help bring your idea to fruition.

This article explores the brainstorming and creative thinking stages of the problem-solving process. It outlines how to generate new ideas. Provides you with guidelines for more effective brainstorming. It shows you how to come up with creative ideas using a series of questions. These questions lay out a blueprint for finding potential solutions to problems. The article also highlights the value of incubating your ideas and how incubation can lead to breakthroughs in problem-solving.

This article throws you into research mode, where you take time to investigate the intricacies of your problem in detail. As you read through this article you are provided with a series of questions that help you explore the facts surrounding your problem. Then once you are clear about the facts, the article guides you through another series of questions that help you separate facts from opinions. Very much like a critical thinking exercise. Finally, when you have gained enough clarity, the article helps you organize and sort through all the data you have collected. This lays down the foundations for the creative problem-solving process that still yet to come.

This article explores how to define your problem before you even begin to work through the problem-solving process. Having a clear definition of your problem will help you lay down the foundations for solving that problem. Specifically, the article explains how to define your problem and the goal you would like to achieve. It challenges you to imagine a desired reality where your problem is no longer a concern. And it guides you through a critical assessment of your past and present to help lay down the foundations for solving the problem you are working through.