Being able to quickly think through and solve problems is an important skill in our personal lives, and it's equally as important in our professional lives. We're faced with decisions that we have to make each and every day but being able to make those decisions quickly and effectively can sometimes seem really hard to do. It can even bring a lot of unneeded stress in our lives.

 

Watch Patrick McGinnis' The Way We Work TED Talk. He discusses no stakes, low stakes, and high stakes decisions that we encounter in our everyday lives. He also mentions ways to help us quickly and effectively make decisions.

Refer to the information in the video, on the Internet to conduct a search on critical thinking skills that can help you make both personal and professional decisions.

 

 

1. Describe a time you struggled with making a decision.
2. Explain why critical thinking skills are important when making a decision.
3. Describe one decision-making strategy that could be most helpful in a job as an allied healthcare professional.