C171 End of Theme Essay
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C171 End of Theme Essay
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: The Key to Career Success
Today’s modern military environment demands leaders of all levels develop the ability to respond objectively to any situation. The modern leader must be able to effectively communicate with others in determining solutions to highly complex problems while using their own abstract ideas to reach the most logical and practical solution. The environment is complex and extremely dynamic. The C100 Foundations Block module that will assist me most in my duties as a Field Grade officer over the next ten years of my career is C121, Introduction to Critical Thinking and Problem Solving.
Critical thinking and problem solving are skills are acquired through a lifetime of learning and are further refined through continuous use and applicable employment. Michael Scriven of the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking Instruction defines critical thinking as "The intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action." As a successful field grade officer, I need to facilitate asking the right questions and then effectively question the answers I generate from my line of questioning.
In order to ask the right questions, I must first gather and organize the relevant material. Through this process I will end up with a series of facts and assumptions. The facts are tested as statements that are verifiable truths tested against my experience. With assumptions being assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn. For example, the fact in the statement, “the UH-60 is used as a U.S. Army helicopter”, implies that the United States Army operates helicopters, and it is the UH-60. The assumption is the U.S. Army operates additional types of...
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: The Key to Career Success
Today’s modern military environment demands leaders of all levels develop the ability to respond objectively to any situation. The modern leader must be able to effectively communicate with others in determining solutions to highly complex problems while using their own abstract ideas to reach the most logical and practical solution. The environment is complex and extremely dynamic. The C100 Foundations Block module that will assist me most in my duties as a Field Grade officer over the next ten years of my career is C121, Introduction to Critical Thinking and Problem Solving.
Critical thinking and problem solving are skills are acquired through a lifetime of learning and are further refined through continuous use and applicable employment. Michael Scriven of the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking Instruction defines critical thinking as "The intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action." As a successful field grade officer, I need to facilitate asking the right questions and then effectively question the answers I generate from my line of questioning.
In order to ask the right questions, I must first gather and organize the relevant material. Through this process I will end up with a series of facts and assumptions. The facts are tested as statements that are verifiable truths tested against my experience. With assumptions being assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn. For example, the fact in the statement, “the UH-60 is used as a U.S. Army helicopter”, implies that the United States Army operates helicopters, and it is the UH-60. The assumption is the U.S. Army operates additional types of...