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creativity

ˌkriːeɪˈtɪvɪti/

the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness.

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Communication means...1.the imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium.2.sending or receiving information, such as telephone lines or computers."satellite communications"

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Communication means...1.the imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium.2.sending or receiving information, such as telephone lines or computers."satellite communications"

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Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of 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.
(Source: https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766)

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Secret Formula to Get Students Critically Thinking in Any Classroom: A 9 minute read.

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Secret Formula to Get Students Critically Thinking in Any Classroom: A 9 minute read.

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http://www.serenapariser.com/my-secret-formula-to-get-students-critically-thinking-in-any-classroom

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Effective communication is important for the development of an organization. It is something which helps the managers to perform the basic functions of management- Planning, Organizing, Motivating and Controlling. Communication skills whether written or oral form the basis of any business activity.

Communication serves as the foundation of every facet of a business. Thus, it can be said that effective communication is the building block of an organization. Some of the benefits of effective communication skills are:

- Communication keeps the foundation of motivation. It helps the employer to know how a job is being performed and to improve performance if it is not up to the mark.

- Communication acts as a source of information and helps in the decision making process and helps in identifying the alternative course of action.

- Communication also helps in building people's attitude. A well informed person will always have better attitude than a less informed person. Different forms of communication like magazines, journals and meetings will help the employees to form different attitudes.

- In the current business scenario, no business can survive in isolation. Socializing is very important and communication is the tool that helps in socializing.

- Apart from the other functions of management, it also helps in the controlling process of management. It allows the managers to know about the grievances of the subordinates and helps the subordinates to know about the policies of the organization.

Communication is one of the basic features of management. It is instrumental in raising the morale of the employees. It is through communication, verbal or non-verbal, that people submit different feedback and requirements to the management.

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Importance of effective Communication in an Organization

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Effective communication is important for the development of an organization. It is something which helps the managers to perform the basic functions of management- Planning, Organizing, Motivating and Controlling. Communication skills whether written or oral form the basis of any business activity.

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Communication in the 21st Century: Is It What You Say, Not How You Say It? | Vivian Ta | TEDxUTA

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https://everydaygettingbetter.com/stories/what-causes-of-creativity/

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Spice is the Variety of Life

It's almost dinnertime, and your in-laws are in town for the evening. You desperately want to impress them with your cooking skills and have spent countless hours researching the perfect meal to prepare for them. You have chosen a dish that is straight from their ethnic heritage, and you know that you have to get the spices right, choosing the right blend and using them at the most optimal time to enhance the flavor of your dish. After much consideration as to what you need to do and the best way to do it, you manage to pull it off perfectly!

Communication, like spices, comes in a variety of types. While having a variety is nice, it is important to know which one to use and at what time to maximize your success, much like preparing the meal for the in-laws. Let's take a look at the four most common types of communication used by managers, including interpersonal communication, nonverbal communication, written communication and oral communication.

Interpersonal Communication

One of the most important - if not the most important - forms of communication a manager will engage in on a daily basis is interpersonal communication. Interpersonal communication can be described in a variety of ways, but when we examine what it means in the context of management, we can define interpersonal communication as communication between a small group of individuals, typically in a face-to-face setting, where participants engage in a minimally restricted dialogue with each other.

The reason I say it is 'minimally restricted' is because individuals who engage in interpersonal communication share some level of familiarity with each other, making them more likely to self-disclose information, or provide more intimate details than one would with a stranger, for example.

Interpersonal communication, essentially, breaks down barriers which people put up to protect themselves. You allow yourself to become vulnerable by putting yourself out there.

Managers who engage in interpersonal communication with their subordinates demonstrate that they not only care about the organization, especially one that uses teams, but also care about their employees. Taking the time to get to know who your employees are will make them feel valued. This is not to say that every employee will want to get to know you on a more personal level but it at least tells them that you would like to. The more valued the employee feels, the fewer barriers they feel they need to build around them and the more easily information flows. As barriers come down, relationships are formed that create value within the organization, job satisfaction increases, and the workplace becomes a place where everybody likes to be.

It is equally important for a manager to communicate interpersonally with upper management, as well. Since managers serve as a gatekeeper of information between upper management and subordinates, an effective manager understands their role in keeping the lines of communication open. When organizational information fails to reach its intended recipient, the entire organization can suffer.

Nonverbal Communication

Did you know that the majority of what you communicate to people on a daily basis is done without words at all? This is also true for managers. Put simply, nonverbal communication is anything besides words, such as gestures, actions, facial expressions, body language and other aspects of your physical appearance, that, when seen, communicate something. I am sure that you've heard the saying 'it is not what you say, but how you say it' or perhaps 'actions speak louder than words.' Managers send, receive and interpret nonverbal messages the same way they would oral or written communication.

Still, understanding the significance of nonverbal communication can be troublesome for managers because it is such a normal part of any managerial action. Our nonverbal communication is as automatic as breathing because we do it without thinking about it most of the time. Even though nonverbal communication accompanies oral communication as an extension of a particular message, the two do not always align. Because nonverbal communication is often used without consideration, inconsistencies between oral communication and nonverbal communication can occur. Effective managers understand and are aware of their nonverbal communication, ensuring consistency between their spoken communication and their nonverbal communication.

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Types of Communication: Interpersonal, Non-Verbal, Written & Oral - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com

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It's almost dinnertime, and your in-laws are in town for the evening. You desperately want to impress them with your cooking skills and have spent countless hours researching the perfect meal to prepare for them.

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Find Free Online Communication Skills Courses and MOOC Courses that are related to Communication Skills.

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Video: 5 tips to improve critical thinking

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Video: 5 tips to improve critical thinking

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5 tips to improve your critical thinking - Samantha Agoos

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A speech is more than a set of spoken words. It's a combination of the speaker, the context, the language, and these things working together can make it far greater than the sum of its parts. In that vein, we compiled some of the greatest public speakers of all time, people whose words changed the course of societies and defined eras.
Winston Churchill
When Paris fell to the Nazis on June 14, 1940, England began to steel itself for the brunt of the Axis powers on the Western front. Winston Churchill, who had taken over as prime minister just a month prior, delivered his famous "Our Finest Hour" to a country bracing itself for full-scale attack. In 1953, Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in part for his speeches, which he wrote himself.

In his history of World War II entitled "The Storm of War," Andrew Roberts writes:

"Winston Churchill managed to combine the most magnificent use of English - usually short words, Anglo-Saxon words, Shakespearean. And also this incredibly powerful delivery. And he did it at a time when the world was in such peril from Nazism, that every word mattered."

John F. Kennedy
Few speeches are as oft quoted as John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, which he spent months writing. Kennedy's ability to speak as if he was having an authentic conversation with an audience, as opposed to lecturing to them, is one quality that made him such a compelling communicator.

Standing accused of crimes including corrupting the youth of Athens, Socrates had a choice: defer and apologize to his accusers for his alleged crimes, or reformulate their scattered accusations into proper legal form (thereby embarrassing his accusers) and deliver an exhaustive defense of the pursuit of truth, apologizing for nothing. He chose the latter and was sentenced to death. Part of Socrates' " " includes:

How you have felt, O men of Athens, at hearing the speeches of my accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that their persuasive words almost made me forget who I was - such was the effect of them; and yet they have hardly spoken a word of truth. But many as their falsehoods were, there was one of them which quite amazed me; - I mean when they told you to be upon your guard, and not to let yourselves be deceived by the force of my eloquence.

Adolf Hitler

Hitler was well aware that mastering the art of public speaking was crucial to his political career. He wrote all of his speeches himself, sometimes editing them more than five times. He practiced his facial expressions and gestures, and he was adept at interweaving metaphor and abstract ideas into his speeches about political policy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The strong musicality of Martin Luther King Jr.'s rhetoric is perhaps just as recognizable as the words "not be judged on the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Martin Luther King drew inspiration from Shakespeare, the bible, his own past speeches, and numerous civil rights thinkers to write his "I Have a Dream" speech, one of the most famous of all time.

Until his death in 1987, James Baldwin pushed the conversation about race in America forward with his carefully intense social criticism. He traveled extensively throughout his life, saying that "Once you find yourself in another civilization, you're forced to examine your own."

Mister (Fred) Rogers spent his life communicating soft-spoken yet direct messages of practical advice to children, ultimately earning him a Peabody Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Rogers was an expert in using rhetoric to effectively communicate with any audience, not just children, a quality best evidenced in his appearance before a senate committee to save his show's funding in 1969.

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7 of the Greatest Public Speakers in History

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A speech is more than a set of spoken words. It's a combination of the speaker, the context, the language, and these things working together can make it far greater than the sum of its parts. In that vein, we compiled some of the greatest public speakers of all time, people whose words changed the course of societies and defined eras.

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Collaboration is highly encouraged in Islam as Allah recommends jumuah prayer which could be practiced in our every day life

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Collaboration is highly encouraged in Islam as Allah recommends jumuah prayer which could be practiced in our every day life

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Jumu'ah ( Arabic: صلاة الجمعة‎, ṣalāt al-jumu'ah, "Friday prayer"), is a congregational prayer () that Muslims hold every Friday, just after noon instead of the Zuhr prayer. Muslims pray ordinarily five times each day according to the sun's sky path regardless of time zones.

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Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved.

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