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How can sustainability professionals improve their critical thinking skills?

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Critical thinking is the ability to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information from various sources and perspectives. It is an essential skill for sustainability professionals, who often face complex and uncertain challenges that require innovative and effective solutions. In this article, you will learn how to improve your critical thinking skills by applying some practical strategies and tools.

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Mike Hassaballa, M.A.Sc., P.Eng., CEM

Energy Engineering | Consulting | Business Operations

1 Identify your assumptions

Improving your critical thinking begins with recognizing any assumptions and biases that may shape your judgment and reasoning. Assumptions are beliefs taken without evidence or verification, while biases are preferences that influence how you perceive and interpret reality. To identify these, ask yourself questions such as what you already know or believe about the issue or problem, how you acquired this knowledge, and how it affects your approach or solution. Additionally, consider any alternative or opposing views and evidence, as well as how you react to them. By questioning your assumptions and biases, you can challenge your own perspective and open yourself up to new possibilities and insights.

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Mike Hassaballa, M.A.Sc., P.Eng., CEM

Energy Engineering | Consulting | Business Operations
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Here are some ways: 1- Engage in Critical Self-Reflection of your designs, what are the goals, are they achievable, how can it be better, are you breaking rules of physics, how far are you pushing the envelope, then use your mentors and peer reviews to give you feedback. 2- Make sure that you stay informed on the latest in sustainable solutions, this changes over time, this means following latest research and not only successful case studies but also failures. 3- Enhance your articulation skills: this is by making sure you are able to communicate ideas effectively, make sure you have good debate around the sustainable goals of your work.

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Chris B.

Architect with over 40 years in private practice.
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Make sure they undertake meaningful and appropriate lifelong learning to maintain the skills they need through Continuing Professional Development. [CPD is not a box-ticking exercise].

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Aybige Tek

Architecture | Architectural Design
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Trying to make everyone involved happy and healthy pushes us the designers to think critically! also not ignoring the facts and reality improves critical thinking. Great Question. Thank you.

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2 Seek diverse and credible sources

Improving your critical thinking can be done by seeking diverse and credible sources of information and knowledge. This can broaden your horizon and stimulate your creativity, as well as provide accurate, reliable, and relevant data to support your arguments and decisions. To find these sources, you should use multiple channels and platforms, such as books, journals, websites, podcasts, and videos. Additionally, you should evaluate the quality and validity of the sources, compare and contrast them, and acknowledge and cite them when appropriate. By doing this, you can gain a better understanding of the issue or problem while also enhancing your knowledge base and critical thinking skills.

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3 Apply frameworks and tools

Improving your critical thinking skills can be done by applying frameworks and tools that can help you organize, structure, and communicate your thoughts and ideas. Frameworks are models or concepts that can help you understand and explain the issue or problem, while tools are techniques or instruments that can help you solve and present the issue or problem. When applying frameworks and tools, it is important to select the most appropriate one for your purpose and audience, such as SWOT analysis or stakeholder mapping. Additionally, you should follow the steps or guidelines of the framework or tool, and adapt or modify it to suit your context and needs. Finally, use the framework or tool to communicate your findings and recommendations with visuals, graphs, or tables. Doing so will help you improve your critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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4 Seek feedback and reflection

A fourth way to improve your critical thinking is to seek feedback and reflection from others and yourself. Feedback is the information and opinions you receive from others about your work or performance, while reflection is the process of evaluating your own work or performance. To do this, ask for constructive and specific feedback from peers, mentors, clients, or experts. Offer constructive feedback to others as well. Reflect on your own work or performance and act on the feedback and reflection you receive: make changes, improvements, or corrections; learn new skills or knowledge; seek new opportunities or challenges. Ultimately, by seeking feedback and reflection, you can improve your critical thinking and learning skills.

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5 Practice and improve

Improving your critical thinking skills is an ongoing process that requires regular practice and development. To do this, you can seek out issues or problems that challenge your skills, experiment with different approaches or solutions, collaborate with other critical thinkers, and review and update your skills. For example, you can identify your strengths and weaknesses, set goals, and measure your progress. Through continuous practice and improvement, you can become a more competent and confident sustainability professional.

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6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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Renee Garcia

Crafting daring brands for changemakers devoted to planting positive change.
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One way to improve critical thinking skills is to stop looking at what has already been done. Think about your own solutions before researching what has already been done. To be true innovators, we need to think differently to discover new solutions. Gather together and use collective knowledge to provide more sustainable solutions. How can you, as someone who wants to work towards a brighter future, push through initial ideas to explore something even better?

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1 Identify your assumptions

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5 Practice and improve

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