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Task 1 - Develop Team and Individual Critical and Creative Thinking

You are required to select the tools and implement processes to:

identify critical and creative thinking concepts and approaches, and their application to a workplace context facilitate relevant learning opportunities for others

develop questions and prompt questioning to broaden knowledge and understanding of the team member cohort

monitor team skill development to develop recommendations on future learning arrangements to be implemented in future planning.

You must identify at least one orphan problem and ask for your boss's support in tackling it. For issues that cross functions, you'll need to pull together a team. Guide your team through the process of analysing the problem, interviewing key stakeholders and developing potential solutions.

You will need to develop methods to ask a range of critical thinking questions related to execute, synthesize, recommend, and generate aspects of critical thinking to determine levels of application within the team, these could include, but are not limited to:

Q1. Problem solving process

Guide your team through structured problem-solution development activities. Describe the process.
You might follow the 6 steps of problem solving in this context.

Q2. Skill assessment and gap identification
Develop a system to measure a team's critical and creative thinking skills with a view to identify skills gaps by developing questions to identify individual and team knowledge gaps.

Develop your own system during the process of problem solving, describe how you would do it and what questions you are going to ask your team members.
You may refer to the reading material provided to answer this question.

Q3. safe environment for critical and creative thinking
Describe how you would create a safe environment for critical and creative thinking approaches in this case

Q4. Learning opportunities and strategies

During the process of problem solving, you need to facilitate formal or informal learning opportunities for team members to apply critical thinking skills.
Develop a strategy to address the gaps of their critical and creative thinking skills you have identified among the team other than

Q5. Feedback session
You should provide feedback to team members on performance of tasks. Describe a structured feedback session with a focus on critical and creative thinking skills.

Q6. Monitor and review
Explain any recommendations for improvements in future learning arrangements to develop team critical thinking skills.