EDGe Webinar: Critical Thinking Fundamentals

EDGe Webinar
Brought to you by the EDGe (Energy & Environmental, Design & Construction, and Government ASQ Divisions).

The modern QA organization is one that has adapted to increasingly complex sociotechnical work environments to better support risk management and improve safety and enterprise performance. In this 60-minute presentation, Deming Prize winning team member and pioneering Nuclear Quality Assurance expert Rob De La Espriella draws from four decades of experience to provide insights into an important soft skill that is essential for the QA professional of the future.
Topics covered in the presentation include:
• The importance of critical thinking in the “Age of Artificial Intelligence.”
• Breaking down critical thinking into practical skills we can learn and apply to
developing informed opinions, making critical decisions, assessing
performance, and solving problems.
• How bias is critical thinking’s worst enemy: techniques for how auditors,
assessors and accident investigators can avoid injecting their own biases into
their products, and how to manage bias from subject matter experts.
• How critical thinking is a cornerstone for asking questions that take “findings”
beyond the symptoms.