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MBA Mentor – A self-mentoring hypertext database application

This self-mentoring product is designed to be used on-demand as if you had your MBA Professors or Skilled Consultants mentoring you when and where you needed help. It functions by delivering in the right thinking sequence the right questions to ask and right cognitive (mental) tools to use … For the most common Critical Thinking business work tasks. See Project Consultants below.

Using MBA Mentor

MBA Mentor (like all MindSights products) uses an MS Word wiki architecture that enables you to:

Use it like a “Browser” to quickly take you to the right thinking tools, templates and questions.
Use it like a “Word Processor” to give you full MS Word functionality and easily customize any cognitive tools, called thinklets, to meet your class assignment or reporting needs.
Use it like a “Wiki” for a class project to collaboratively collect team information and develop project reports.

Below is MindSights MBA Mentor’s Main Menu. Simply click on the blue hyperlinks to walk through the demo. The [Home] button always brings you back. Note: Gray hyperlinks are active in the full MBA Mentor product.

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The MBA Mentor

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1. Instructions & Navigations

2. Project Consultants (Critical Thinking Processes)

3. Thinklets Tool Sets (Thinking Functions)

4. Question Sets (Basic Thinking Tasks)

5. Leading Meetings (Thinking Emulation Grid)

6. Facilitative Management & Leadership

7. Alphabetical Order of Thinklets

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2. Project Consultants (Critical Thinking Processes) critical TOCType

Like using human consultants, these virtual consultants provide you with the critical questions to ask and tools to use, all within the correct thinking sequence.

Project work efforts (critical thinking) in business and organizations typically have one of the following 7 aims.

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Virtual Project Consultants	Critical Thinking Purpose/Aim
Basic (90-minute) Problem Solving	Resolve an urgent problem, issue or challenge.
Corrective Action Problem Solving (RCA)	Restore something to a past, standard or original condition.
Systems Problem Solving	Resolve a complex cross-functional or organizational problem.
Creativity & Innovation	Develop something new and of value that has never existed before.
Improvement	Make current levels of performance better.
Planning	Anticipate and prepare for future opportunities or imminent problems.
Decision Making	Select a course of action among alternatives.

3. Thinklets Tool Sets (Thinking Functions).addendumtools

It’s no longer as important how much you remember … but rather how quickly you can access cognitive tools to help improve thinking performance

Like any manual tool, performance is based on choosing the right tool for the task-at-hand. Find the tool you need and then consider customizing with your own knowledge.

1. Observe and become aware of problems & opportunities

2. Define and describe the problem or situation.

3. Analyze and understand the details.

4. Create and innovate something new or different

5. Systems Think the whole problem or situation

6. Tap into Subconscious thinking

7. Decision making tools

8. Project management tools

9. Team thinking tools

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Use these tools to promote awareness of opportunities or prevent problems from arising.

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