Northeast Ohio Regional Library System

With the challenges and demands supervisors continually face each day, it is essential to possess great critical thinking skills. It is also important to instill such soft skills in your employees so that they can handle the daily demands of their jobs. But what exactly are these crucial abilities? And better yet, why are they important and how can they help us in this ever-changing library environment?

Critical thinking is an overarching skill that helps you succeed in many facets of your professional and personal life. Characteristics like open-mindedness, good decision-making, the ability to be self-aware, and the capacity to adapt in the workplace are all tools that are driven by good critical thinking.

Learning objectives:

• Define the concept of critical thinking
• Explore several of the associated tools mentioned above
• Investigate soft skills and learn ways to immediately improve to become a more conscious and efficient critical thinker