Mindset Growth Areas

Your Design Thinking Mindset is evaluated subjectively from your perceived mastery (becoming) of the following skills & abilities:

Purposefully Curious

Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with many ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is significant, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).

Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others’ reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Time Management: Managing one’s own time and the time of others.

Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.