Pre-release

Defining Objectives for Decision-Making

Establishing Factors which Constrain or Affect the Decision

• Appreciate the value of identifying factors constraining and affecting the options for decision making and using them as a vital part of the process
• Identify those things which constrain or affect the decision and must be considered against each option as a principal aid to making the best decision
• Having established which factors affect the decision, be able to classify them as essential constraints or desirable criteria
• Scale desirable factors to give more accurate weight to each one
• Improve factor identification and assessment by doing a practical case study.

Generating Options and Selecting the Best

• Derive the benefit which imaginative option generation and selection give to the process of making the best decision
• Access or generate a range of options in any decision making situation sufficient to make the probability of a good decision likely
• Recognize that they must always consider the status quo/no action option in case it is the best option
• Recognize the importance of assessing the risk attached to each option
• Select the option best likely to meet the objective by screening all the options through the factors and assessing for risk
• Improve option generation, risk assessment and selection of the best option through doing a practical case study

Selecting Your Optimal Decision-Making Style

• Benefit from awareness of their own preferred decision making style and learning how to develop more flexibility in it in order to get their decisions implemented
• Learn how to identify the various decision making styles
• Identify which style is most likely to be effective in each situation
• Check their own preferred style in decision making situations
• Increase their flexibility by extending the scope of styles used

Course Number:  PD 0213