Effective Decision Making

Course Description:

Few professionals know how they actually make decisions or have a model to use individually and in group situations. Effective Decision Making allows participants an opportunity to explore their approach to the varied decision environments that they will professionally encounter. Participants learn to establish norms and identify a model that can be used to yield predictable and successful results.

Course Objectives:

• Identify the four major influences on the decision maker
• Complete the Decision Style Inventory
• Identify and practice the Decision Making Model
• Define "Group Think"
• Learn methods for overcoming the negative consequences of Group Think
• Examine appropriate problem-solving tools

Course Content:

• Decision Making Process
• Personal Style and Needs
• Nature of the Decision
• Decision Style Inventory
• Decision Intensity Levels
• Establishing Success Criteria
• Strategizing
• Decision Making Model
• Decision Norms
• Critical Thinking
• Group Think

Course Design:

Participants will establish and test a Decision Making Model which can positively impact their professional objectives. Participants gain an opportunity to incorporate the seminar content in several decision making simulations. The learning model is:

Awareness - through experiential learning participants will discover knowledge that can be turned into skills to make a difference in how they make decisions

Feedback - feedback from seminar participants and the facilitator will identify priorities for improvement

Practice - through experiential learning exercises participants will have an opportunity to apply the Decision Making Model

Planning - fifteen percent of this course is devoted to developing action plans

Learning methods and instruments include ten percent lecture and ninety percent simulation.