TRG Talk – Talent Management: Critical Thinking is Critical

On June 27th, TRG held the TRG Talk - Talent Management with the topic "Critical Thinking - Achieving Business Goals", the final talk in the series “Leading Yourself”, hosted by Mr. Khoa Tran – Business Development Manager of Talent Management Department, TRG International. In this seminar, Mr. Khoa shared his experience with critical thinking skill to help the attendees to gain more confidence to achieve their goals in work and life.

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Why critical thinking is important?

According to the Future of Jobs report conducted by the World Economic Forum in 2016, critical thinking skill is gradually becoming an important factor and is ranked in the top 10 skills needed (in 2015, this skill was ranked #4, and is estimated to reach #2 in 2020).

Having said that, what is critical thinking? It is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualising, applying, analysing, synthesising, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.

Benefits of having critical thinking

For individuals, critical thinking can help in increasing these skills:

Self-Awareness: The ability to analyse/realise your own emotion
Problem Solving: Solve the problem logically
Time Management
Collaboration: Being understanding and sympathetic
Communication: Listen/Speak promptly, communicate effectively
Innovation: Be open to new ideas, new solutions…

For organisations, critical thinking can help individuals in improving other skills, including:

Coaching: understand the problem, analyse and organise thoughts when training others
Feedback: Understand the strength/weakness of others and describe them clearly, accurately using objective and constructive methods
Motivation: increase motivation and inspire people internally and externally
Discussion: think out of the box, analyse the issue in different directions objectively in discussions

How do you promote critical thinking in your business?

Having the right people: You can start building critical thinking for your business by choosing/recruiting critically thinking individuals.

At TRG, we offer various assessment tools to test the characteristics of each candidate to determine if this person is suitable for the selected job and the working environment.

Developing/Training the behaviours: By participating in training sessions, online courses, reading, and doing assessments can empower suitable training and development plan and nurture critical thinking for employees.

About TRG Talk

TRG Talk is a series of events co-organised by TRG International and PJ’s Coffee Vietnam in order to promote the latest trends in the IT industry and the HR world, as well as tips and trick in improving your project management skills.

About TRG Talk - Talent Management

Is your organisation caught in various problems revolve around talent management? Are you actively looking for ways to efficiently as well as effectively recruit and retain talented staff? TRG Talk - Talent series is a platform where all leaders can openly share their experience in managing talents, how to create and maintain a healthy working environment where everyone of any background, belief, and identity can work harmoniously.

TRG Talk - Talent is held every fourth Wednesday of the month.