Publisher: Systematix
Version: Self-management
Length: 1 day
Course-ID: SX508X

Objective

This course is intended to provide the delegate with an effective and reliable decision-making framework, and to identify appropriate methods of solving problems in complex environments.

Skills Gained

  • Effectiveness in identifying problems
  • Analysis and utilisation of thinking styles
  • Knowing how and why to seek disconfirming evidence
  • Appreciating benefits and risks in decision making
  • Pre-empting and preventing problems with a “solutions” strategy

Day 1
Analysis Techniques
  • Identifying concerns and issues, causes and effects
  • Devising a decision-making framework
  • Listing considerations, alternatives, weighting
Approach Identification and Modification
  • Understanding the thinking process
  • Conceptual reflective and visual thinking
  • Avoiding the entrapment bias
  • Disciplines in seeking contrary evidence to ensure accurate information-gathering techniques
Day 2
Decision Analysis
  • Agreeing practical objectives
  • Grading options, risks and issues
  • Over-viewing evaluation techniques
  • Swot analysis, decision trees, force field analysis pmi
  • Impact analysis
Problem and Solutions Strategy
  • Cause and effect
  • Process steps
  • Preventative and contingent actions
  • Separating and prioritising issues
  • Evaluating choices and the consequences
  • Hindsight evaluation and benefits analysis
Practical Session
Summary