Course Description
Imagine you’re given the option to lead a presentation for your company’s executives. If it goes well, you could make a good impression and influence positive change. Or, you could turn down the opportunity and have everything remain the same. What factors would you consider? What would you prioritize?
There is no formula to guarantee that you’ll always make the best decisions, but there are frameworks available to help you think through your choices. As you’re faced with new challenges in the workplace, you can use the information in this course to find the most appropriate decision-making styles. These strategies will help you build the skills to make more effective decisions.
Our course Making Decisions at Work will help you create a process for developing decision-making skills and learn the four decision-making styles. As you remember the difference between judgment and decision-making, you’ll be better able to make more effective choices.
What You'll Learn
- Develop an effective decision-making process for the workplace
- Determine the best decision-making styles for different situations
- Practice sound decision-making when facing new workplace challenges
- Apply the four decision-making styles covered in the course
- Use judgment to make more effective decisions
- Distinguish between judgment and decision-making
Key Takeaways
- There is no formula that guarantees the best decisions, but frameworks can help you think through your choices.
- The course teaches a process for developing decision-making skills and covers four decision-making styles.
- Remembering the difference between judgment and decision-making helps you make more effective choices.
- Choosing the most appropriate decision-making style for new workplace challenges builds the skills to make more effective decisions.
Frequently Asked Questions
What will I learn in Making Decisions at Work?
You will create a process for developing decision-making skills, learn the four decision-making styles, and understand the difference between judgment and decision-making.
What topics does this course cover?
The course covers the decision-making process, determining your decision-making style, and using judgment to make decisions, with an introduction and a knowledge test.
What skills does this course help build?
It helps build skills in decision making, decision analysis, decision science, decision theories, group decision making, and strategic decision making.
Who is this course for?
It is for people who face new challenges in the workplace and want to use frameworks to find the most appropriate decision-making styles and make more effective decisions.
Professional Certifications and Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Professional Development Units (PDUs): 0.25
KnowledgeCity has been reviewed and approved by the PMI® Authorized Training Partner Program. Users can maintain your PMI credentials by earning PDUs from KnowledgeCity qualified courses in Project Management, Business Management, Leadership and many others.
Professional Development Credits (PDCs): 0.25
KnowledgeCity is approved by SHRM as a Recertification General Provider to offer SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP professional development credits (PDCs). By taking the courses approved by SHRM, KnowledgeCity can award SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for HR knowledge and competency programs related to the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge™ (the SHRM BASK™).
