الأهداف
This aims at helping the participants to use the best available personal techniques in improving their problem solving techniques and taking a decision
الخطوط العريضة
What is Decision Making
- What are the characteristics of a good and bad decision maker?
- How much analysis do you need to do?
- What is involved in decision making process?
How to Choose Actions
- How to choose between a set of options where each has its own advantages and disadvantages?
- How to make a quantifiable comparison between alternative options?
- How to systematically compare related options?
- How to systematically compare unrelated options?
How to Analyse the Impact of Your Actions
- How to use a measure to compare pros and cons?
- How to carry out a force field analysis?
- How to compare the benefits versus the costs of taking different options?
- How to systematically analyse a cascade of decisions where one leads to another?
- How to visualise your decision making process?
- What tools can you use to increase your creativity when making decisions so you can come up with more options?
How to Decide in Groups
- What are the implications of deciding in groups?
- Why thinking in groups can sometimes be so frustrating?
- What can you do to increase the efficiency of your meetings?
- How to prevent dominant people from take over the meeting or the decision making process?
- How to encourage newcomers or those who are shy to present their views without fear of criticism?
- What tools can you use to streamline the process of group decision making?
- How to avoid groupthink, where participants are so eager to reach a decision without causing conflicts that they end up choosing a wrong solution?
What are the Principles of Decision Making?
- Do you always have to make sure you get a better bargain than others?
- What are the philosophical implications of complexity when making decisions?
- What is the best way to plan your course of action and what principles you need to be aware of?
- What can you learn from game theory when making decisions?