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Profession of Arms |
Includes chapters focused on prof areas such as customs and courtesies and airmanship |
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Leadership and Management |
Organizational management functions and human resource management issues all airmen face at home station. (Helping NCOs solve problems, drive change, and execute missions using effective leadership and management tools) |
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Joint Warfighter |
Policy, strategy and doctrine, cross cultural competence, and joint organization and planning. Promoting responsibilities of protecting our nation, preventing future conflicts, and prevailing against adversaries. |
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Communication |
Chapters focused on how to express ideas clearly, concisely, and with impact. NCOs articulating policies, decisions, and directions that motivate and inspire others to achieve a common goal while ensuring a free flow of information up, down, and across organizations by encouraging open expression of ideas. |
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Why is developing critical thinkers essential to the success of our Air Force? |
Critical thinking is important because of rapid and frequent changes, regular deployments, and sometimes even dangerous operations. |
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Critical thinking is defined as: |
actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication as a guide to belief and action. |
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A critical thinker: |
-raises vital questions from problems, formulating them clearly -gathers and assesses relevant info, using ideas to interpret it -formulates well reasoned conclusions and solutions, testing them against relevant criteria -thinks open-mindedly within alternative systems of thought -communicates effectively with others in figuring out solutions. |
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The first step to becoming a proficient critical thinker is: |
Developing the proper attitude, specifically an attitude that embodies the following characteristics : open-mindedness, healthy skepticism, intellectual humility, free thinking, and high motivation. |
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Critical thinkers must be willing to |
Investigate viewpoints different from their own, but at the same time recognize when to doubt claims that do not merit such investigation. |
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A critical thinker must be |
Neither rigid nor gullible. |
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Being both open-minded and skeptical means |
Seeking the facts, information sources, and reasoning to support issues from as many sides as possible |
