The document provides an overview of problem solving skills and thinking differently, with the goal of helping unemployed professionals think in new ways to find jobs. It discusses critical vs creative thinking, systems thinking, statistical thinking, intuition, problem solving tools/methods, and lateral/intuitive thinking. Techniques for thinking differently include meditation, reconnecting with senses/intuition, analogies/metaphors, conversations/interviews, and learning something new. The document aims to get readers to open their minds to new ideas and think in ways outside their comfort zones.

1. Using Problem Solving Skills To Get A Job. Changing Your Mindset and Thinking Differently. Unemployed Professional Group Portland, Maine September 15, 2009

4. Open Your Mind To New Ideas

7. Portraits of A Problem Solver?

10. Critical (Convergent) Versus Creative (Divergent) Thinking

20. System & Statistical Thinking

27. Statistical Thinking

29. Control Charting

32. Problem Solving

45. The Eternal Question

47. Control Chart ???

48. So, What is the Answer?

49. Using Triggers To Think Differently

51. Intuition

54. Thinking Intuitively Versus Analytically

57. OODA Loop Decision-making occurs in a recurring cycle of observe-orient-decide-act. An entity (whether an individual or an organization) that can process this cycle quickly, observing and reacting to unfolding events more rapidly than an opponent, can thereby "get inside" the opponent's decision cycle and gain the advantage.

58. The Human Connection

61. The wRap Up