Problem-solving and effective decision-making are essential skills in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing workplace. Both require a systematic yet creative approach to address today’s business concerns. This course will teach an overarching process of how to identify problems to generate potential solutions and how to apply decision-making styles in order to implement and assess those solutions. Through this process, you will gain confidence in assessing problems accurately, selecting the appropriate decision-making approaches for the situation at hand, making team decisions, and measuring the success of the solution’s implementation. Using case studies and situations encountered by class members, you will explore proven, successful problem-solving and decision-making models and methods that can be readily transferred to workplace projects.
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About this Course
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Try Coursera for BusinessWhat you will learn
Explain both the affordances and limitations associated with problem-solving and decision-making
Reflect on how mindset and personal bias influence your ability to solve problems and make decisions
Explain and discuss how organizational decisions or non-decisions impact personal development, team dynamics, and company-wide performance
Articulate how both good and bad team decisions can benefit your professional growth
Skills you will gain
- Decision Theory
- analysis
- Decision-Making
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Identify the Problem
Generate Solutions
Make the Decision
Implement and Assess the Solution
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- 5 stars66.15%
- 4 stars23.50%
- 3 stars7.46%
- 2 stars1.78%
- 1 star1.07%
TOP REVIEWS FROM EFFECTIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING AND DECISION-MAKING
It's a great course with important and nicely presented information. It could be even better if University Of California, Irvine would make it more informative and longer than it is right now.
An excellent course that come out with a lo of great info and useful for me as self improvement in improving my personnel development. Thank you to Mr Rob Stone for this great course.
I really enjoyed this course. Its simple and easy to learn. Highly recommend this course to everyone who wants to improve their decision making and problem solving skills.
This course has opened my mind to how to the techniques used to make better decisions and solving complex problems.
I have learnt a great deal. Thanks to the facilitators!
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