Course Outline
Lessons
COURSE OVERVIEW
Learn how to be an inventive, logical decision maker by understanding the principles behind critical thinking and the tools used to consistently identify and select the best decision among multiple alternatives. In this course, you'll explore a structured way to approach and dismantle problems with a view toward optimum outcomes.
Applying the techniques of critical thinking allows you to dismantle complex problems and to understand the inputs and implications of your thought processes. By applying problem analysis and good practices you'll be able to develop positions and arrive at decisions that are logical and explicable to others. After completing the course, you'll understand why most decisions are of poor quality and be able to impose quality controls on both your decisions and the decisions of others.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- Natural barriers to sound reasoning
- Bias and assumptions in problem analysis
- Thought processes and reasoning
- Analytical techniques for comparing alternative solutions
- Structure, standards, and ethics of critical thinking
- Problem analysis best practices
Hands-On Exercises
- Evaluate the strategic thinking of others
- Assess the reasoning of others
- Problem solving by starting with restatement of the issues
- Problem solving from a number of different perspectives
- Identify decision-making factors
- Creativity and the decision-making process
- Structure the analytical process with a matrix
- Evaluate decision options using probabilities
- Compare options using paired ranking
OUTLINE
Classroom Live Outline
1. Introduction to Decision Making
- What's a Decision?
- High Quality vs. Low Quality Decisions
- Becoming a Better Decision-Maker
2. Barriers to Brilliant Decisions
- Instinctive Decision-Making
- Barriers to Sound Reasoning
- Outlook vs. Reality
3. Critical Thinking
- What Is Critical Thinking?
- Structures of Thinking
- Thinking with Standards
- Sophistry and Intellectual Ethics
4. Problem Analysis Guidelines
- Opening the Mind
- 10 Best Practice Guidelines
- Structuring Techniques
- Putting It All Together
5. The Decision
- Who Decides?
- Who Should Decide?
- Take Home Message
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This course provides an introduction to structured decision making. It is intended for any professional who is new to formal problem analysis, including: department managers, directors, supervisors, project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, product managers, program managers, associate project managers, stakeholders, team members, and all others responsible for resource allocations.
PDUS
This course qualifies you for the following PMI® Professional Development Units (PDUs):
Classroom Live and Virtual Classroom Live
- Leadership = 10
- Strategic and Business Management = 4
Total = 14
Cancellation Policy
We require 16 calendar days notice to reschedule or cancel any registration. Failure to provide the required notification will result in 100% charge of the course. If a student does not attend a scheduled course without prior notification it will result in full forfeiture of the funds and no reschedule will be allowed. Within the required notification period, only student substitutions will be permitted. Reschedules are permitted at anytime with 16 or more calendar days notice. Enrollments must be rescheduled within six months of the cancel date or funds on account will be forfeited.
Training Location
Online Classroom
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your city,
your province
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I would never take another course that starts at 11AM and goes to 9PM again. The way the course was laid out really took away from the capturing of what was presented as it was 5-6 hours of watching a screen before getting to the actual labs. There has to be a better way to lay out this particular course. In my previous course, the lectures were broken up by labs which worked out fantastic and kept you engaged in the course. There were days when in order to actually complete the labs, would go over the 9PM day end time frame. Was able to get the primary labs done, but if you want to get all the content completed, you cannot complete it in the window of this course, you will need to come back on your own time.