Why devote time and effort to optimizing and documenting open-ended problem solving skills?
1. Employers explicitly ask for these skills. The ability to talk about and exhibit these skills helps you be an outstanding candidate for a wide range of work opportunities. 2. These skills are applicable to a wide range of other practical problems, including: Career development Parenting Communication Relationships Budgeting and household management Voting and civic life Related Terms Problem solving, as we will be exploring it, is closely related to these terms: Clinical judgment Continuous improvement Critical thinking Decision making Inquiry Learning to learn Lifelong learning Professional judgment Reflective judgment Science Total quality management Wisdom Optimizing Your Problem Solving Skills Developing skills requires practice Practice requires time and effort Collaborators and coaches can help Having a conceptual model can help Working on real problems helps Observing and reflecting on other people’s problem solving efforts helps Documenting and reflecting on your own efforts
