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Cognitive Agility - Sharpening Critical Thinking Skills: Leadership Lessons from the Trenches (S4E080)
In this episode, hosts Merv Jersak and Tim Jerome share personal stories and examples illustrating how cognitive agility and common sense can lead to successful project outcomes. The discussion covers topics like leadership mentoring, adapting to legislative changes, practical decision-making in personal lives, and the value of listening to team members and external stakeholders. Through these narratives, they highlight the necessity of critical thinking not only in planning but also in course correction throughout the project lifecycle.
Main Take-Aways
Stories are powerful teachers. Today’s story lessons help your understanding of the importance of developing a your critical thinking skills for enhanced problem-solving on your project or in life in general:
- thinking through your own solutions
- adapting to unexpected project challenges from external influences
- learning from others
- applying critical thinking in personal decision making
- using critical thinking to innovate
- turning challenges into opportunities through critical thinking
Show Notes
Today’s Project Managers Coffee Chat: Leadership Lessons from the Trenches – Developing Your Critical Thinking
00:49 Tim begins with an experience he and fellow PMs had with a supervisor who taught them all critical thinking skills by putting them in situation in where they had to think through solutions on their own.
02:18 Merv recounts a very complex situation that required several applications of critical thinking on a major project when the main stakeholder enacted new rules part way through the project’s design.
04:40 Tim illustrates how he was able to learn from the critical thinking skills of team members schooled in effective decision making and problem-solving.
06:31 Merv changes course with a personal experience of applying critical thinking when his daughters began their college years, and how the resulting decision has had long lasting, serendipitous benefits to this day.
08:50 Tim speaks of a time that he extended his reach beyond the project and added consulting and critical thinking skills from individuals not directly involved with his project – individuals who were not IT practitioners.
11:37 Merv tells of a situation where critical thinking saved a troubled project through some innovative solutioning.
14:36 Tim provides an example of how a change in mindset regarding the role of a potentially constraining organization provided opportunities for applying focused critical thinking and advice.
17:57 Merv relates a challenging experience where the system his team was developing would not meet the demand from a sudden unexpected external influence, and how critical thinking skills formulated a significant decision that truly saved the day.
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By Merv Jersak & Tim JeromeIn this episode, hosts Merv Jersak and Tim Jerome share personal stories and examples illustrating how cognitive agility and common sense can lead to successful project outcomes. The discussion covers topics like leadership mentoring, adapting to legislative changes, practical decision-making in personal lives, and the value of listening to team members and external stakeholders. Through these narratives, they highlight the necessity of critical thinking not only in planning but also in course correction throughout the project lifecycle.
Main Take-Aways
Stories are powerful teachers. Today’s story lessons help your understanding of the importance of developing a your critical thinking skills for enhanced problem-solving on your project or in life in general:
- thinking through your own solutions
- adapting to unexpected project challenges from external influences
- learning from others
- applying critical thinking in personal decision making
- using critical thinking to innovate
- turning challenges into opportunities through critical thinking
Show Notes
Today’s Project Managers Coffee Chat: Leadership Lessons from the Trenches – Developing Your Critical Thinking
00:49 Tim begins with an experience he and fellow PMs had with a supervisor who taught them all critical thinking skills by putting them in situation in where they had to think through solutions on their own.
02:18 Merv recounts a very complex situation that required several applications of critical thinking on a major project when the main stakeholder enacted new rules part way through the project’s design.
04:40 Tim illustrates how he was able to learn from the critical thinking skills of team members schooled in effective decision making and problem-solving.
06:31 Merv changes course with a personal experience of applying critical thinking when his daughters began their college years, and how the resulting decision has had long lasting, serendipitous benefits to this day.
08:50 Tim speaks of a time that he extended his reach beyond the project and added consulting and critical thinking skills from individuals not directly involved with his project – individuals who were not IT practitioners.
11:37 Merv tells of a situation where critical thinking saved a troubled project through some innovative solutioning.
14:36 Tim provides an example of how a change in mindset regarding the role of a potentially constraining organization provided opportunities for applying focused critical thinking and advice.
17:57 Merv relates a challenging experience where the system his team was developing would not meet the demand from a sudden unexpected external influence, and how critical thinking skills formulated a significant decision that truly saved the day.