Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Problem-solving and Decision-making Strategies

This course gives you exactly what you need to improve your problem-solving and decision-making habits. 

It gives you models and techniques that you can use in real life professional and personal situations. It's all about providing a practical framework for improvement and for creating positive habits in problem-solving and decision-making. 

This is part of a larger skills for life program, and it helped people in very difficult situations or looking to get better at what they do. 

The 4+ hours of video content with a focus on practice will help you learn:
  • problem-solving and decision-making models, 
  • how to avoid mind and process traps and 
  • how to use decision-making strategies.
You will learn to use a methodical approach to reach the best decisions by: 
  • establishing a context for success, 
  • framing the issue properly, 
  • generating alternatives, 
  • evaluating these alternatives and 
  • choosing the best option. 
And, this course gives you the most effective and popular tools for decision-making:
  • nominal group technique,
  • return on investment technique,
  • devil's advocate technique,
  • plus-minus-interesting analysis and 
  • ease-and-effect technique. 
The problem-solving model helps you understand what the problem is, identify causes and opportunities, generate solutions, evaluate and choose the best solution, and implement and monitor your actions. 

So, you get 2 conceptual models - one for problem solving and other for decision-making - and 5 techniques. With practice and quiz work you will learn in maximum 7 hours a way to make your life better. 

This course is for everyone, no special requirements. Come with an open mind and focus on developing your problem-solving and decision-making.