OBM100 Personality Development Topic 1 PDF

OBM100 PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT  T1: Thinking Skills INTRODUCTION TO THINKING SKILLS What is Thinking Skills? Decision Making Problem-Solving Skills Critical Thinking Skills Creative Thinking Analytical Thinking...

OBM100 PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT  T1: Thinking Skills INTRODUCTION TO THINKING SKILLS What is Thinking Skills? Decision Making Problem-Solving Skills Critical Thinking Skills Creative Thinking Analytical Thinking Mind Map Ms Yong @ Syaza Marina Ramli OBM100 – Personality Development +6019 – 379 9309 | [email protected] 2  Introduction to 1 Thinking Skills Let’s see what :Thinking” is all about. 3  4 Remembering Reasoning Forming an opinion / belief Creating ideas A mental activity that can take in many forms and help your mind organised “ TYPES OF THINKING SKILLS Decision-Making Problem-Solving Skills Skills Critical Thinking Skills 5  DECISION MAKING SKILLS Personal Family Process of resolving whether something is worth doing or not worth doing Group ”Process” point in time before which the Community decisions was not made and after it has been Organisational made National i.e. Buying/purchase, sales, marriage, routine International decision, etc. Level of Decision Making 6  Steps to Make Good Decision State the Question List the Goals List the Alternatives Determine what you need to Include the things you hope to List all the alternatives that open decide accomplish to you Make one decision at a time Write goals in the order of Try not to settle for only obvious Keep the question simple importance alternatives State it clearly & write it down Most important first, least Discuss your situation with important after another person Gather Some Information Consider & Compare Alternatives Make the Decision Consider first alternative, Get out the list goals & Best alternatives will surface imagine what would happen if alternative chart your decision you choose that Compare alternative with goals Back-up alternatives is a wise Decide if the consequences Look closely at the “Pros” and action would be good / bad ”Cons” Do it with each alternative Look at the consequences Make a chart 7  Cont’d… NO HOLD BACK YES A positive rejection Inadequacy of temptation & Decider do not have enough To agree, to adopt, to take motivation information action Not willing to put on the effort Decider is not willing to takes Based on sufficient required an effort information Can’t figure out how to Not willing to give up the Adequate temptation in the implement the decision “pleasures” of the old style information Positive act of playing safe in Not wanting to hurt / The decider is committed case of risk / uncertainty disappoint others Type of action required after Not wanting to hurt the Too many information that making the decision Is known feelings of others create unvertainty Timidity (money) 8 PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS A problem is a difficult situation that needs to be worked out To find an answer to a difficult situation 9  Steps of Problem-Solving Skills State the Problem List the Possible Solutions Gather Some Information Determine the exact problem Try to limit yourself to only the Gather some information about Solve one problem at a time obvious solutions each possible solutions § Try to keep the problem Try to add different and creative Look for both good / bad points simple & direct solutions to your list of each solution § State the problem clearly & Include any information to help write it down with final conclusion Consider & Compare Solutions Choose a Solution Look carefully at the pros / cons Solutions should be flexible of each solution Test your solution – give trial Eliminate solutions with more period to see how well it works cons Choose the best solution from the remaining ones 10 CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS To evaluate carefully what another person says or writes Help you to decide if what person says or writes is true or not Task will be easier if you learn to: Listen with critical ear Read with critical eye 11  Steps to Think Critically Find out if the speaker is reliable Make sure you understand the Look for tricks meant to Ask yourself these questions information persuade you § ”Is the speaker giving You can decide whether this A speaker can use many tricks facts or opinion?” information is true by: to talk you into believing § “What do other experts § “Do I understand all the something that is not true say on the same words?” subject?” § If not, look up any words Question the speaker’s you don’t know or ask the sources speaker to explain § “Where did the speaker get the information?” § “Is the information current?” 12 CREATIVE THINKING Bringing into being something or value that was not there before Not confined to the arts only – also sciences To generate new concepts, new ideas and new sight 13 Aims of Creative Thinking To clear the mind of To explore all the wrong assumptions To create new creative possibilities about the subject – conceptual providing space for frameworks new creative thoughts To generate ideas that To develop creative will result in specific plans actions 14 General Principles of Creative Thinking Use lots of Associate different imagination ideas Be flexible 15 Steps of Problem-Solving Skills Associate new and Combine unusual Magnify and use unique ideas with pre- elements dimension existing ones Rearrange and link Reverse pre-existing Use different colours pre-existing concepts concepts 16 Challenges in Creative Thinking Refuse to accept that the current way of Do not set to judge, doing things is criticize or find fault necessarily the best way Encourages exploration of other possibilities 17 HALT! Let’s take a little break, shall we? 18 ANALYTICAL THINKING Process of identifying the cause of the problem Try to understand complex situations by looking at the situation through various components or parts 19 MIND MAPPING Popularised by British popular psychology author and television personality – Tony Buzan in 1974 – following his research into note taking techniques Linking the concept of mind mapping to radiant thinking in his book – The Mind Map Book: Radiant Thinking (BBC Books, 1993) Mind mapping is a device that encourages one to put on paper, the words, symbols, images and codes that are associate with one’s thoughts, ideas, concepts, expressions, and emotions 20  How Mind Mapping Was Invented? Tony Buzan studied THREE (3) common techniques for taking notes during a lecture: Writing a complete Writing a summary Writing key words transcript only 21 Introduction to Mind Mapping Around the central It consist of a central word you draw 5 word / concept main ideas Then you take each those words & again draw 5-10 main ideas 22 Advantages of Mind Mapping Time saving Used of key words 75-90% of the words can Association & connections Can be in image form be eliminated are precise Creativity and personality Free-flowing, spontaneous Learning process is is highly involved and free associating accelerated 23 Things Can Do with Mind Map Creative writing & report writing Studying the easy way Studying as a group/family Meetings & Think Tanks Giving a talk Note-taking 24  How to Create A Mind Map? Work outwards from Use 3D perspective Begin at the centre of in its directions to Use about 5-7 and colours to create the page with the produce a unique clusters, where a more interest and main topic or ideas pattern or ideas and cluster is a sub idea dramatic sub-topics Make use of a Arrow, colours, and Used one word per Be creative, original personal short-form, designs can be added line to make it more and have fun codes and symbols to show connection concise and associations 25 26 27  Benefits of Using Computer to Create A Mind Map Easy Restructuring Highlighting Comments Restructure mind maps by Instantly highlight different Allows you to write sentence of moving words and trees of features of a complex mind map explanation for yourself or others words around in seconds Better for quick new idea creation and ordering ideas into meaningful structure Presentability Export Having the same high-quality You can instantly export the appearance as any other mind map to a normal text file or document to structured word processor document 28 29 Results of Good Mind Mapping Techniques More integrated Saving time in Remembering Learning becomes learning learning better and faster more organised Learning is more Learning is more Improved academic efficient interesting & performance exciting 30 SPERRY’S SPLIT-BRAIN THEORY In mind mapping, both side of the brain are being used at the same time since the “mind-mapper” is encouraged to use both words and symbols/codes/images The whole brain is used – helps bring about better recall in terms of time taken and the amount of content to be learned 31  Left Brain Right Brain Language Forms & patterns Mathematical Spatial manipulation Logic & numbers Rhythm & musical Sequence Image & picture Linearity Imagination Analysis Daydreaming The word of a song Dimension The tune of a song 32 GARDNER’S MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES THEORY Mind map is a useful and enhancing tool for using the SEVEN (7) intelligences that we have 33  Gardner’s Seven Multiple Intelligences Sensitivity to language, meanings, and relations among words Linguistic i.e. novelist, poet, copywriter, scriptwriter, editor, magazine, writer, PR director, reporter, etc. Control of one’s body & object, timing, trained Bodily- responses that function like reflexes Kinesthetic i.e. dancer, athlete, actor, inventor, surgeon, Sensitivity to pitch, rhythm, timbre, the emotional aerobic instructress power & complex organisation of music Musical i.e. performer, composer, conductor, music audience, etc. Sensitivity to others, ability to read the intentions & desires of others, potentially to influence them Interpersonal i.e. politician, teacher, lecturer, counsellor, Abstract thought precision, counting, salesman, manager – people person Logical- organisation, logical structure Mathematical i.e. mathematician, scientist, engineer, animal tracker, police investigator, lawyer, etc. Self-knowledge, sensitivity to one’s own values, purpose, feelings, developed sense of self Intrapersonal i.e. novelist, counsellor, wise elder, philosopher, Keen observation, visual thinking, mental images, guru, etc. metaphor, a sense of whole gestalt Spatial i.e. architect, painter, sculptor, navigator, chess player, naturalist, theoretical, physicist, etc. 34 Thanks! 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