Practical Problem Solving & Decision making Training

Learn how decision making influences stress, emotions, and behavior, and master science-based tools and techniques to make faster, more confident choices that help you get more self-esteem and reduce anxiety.

Discover four decision making methods—intuition from past experiences, measuring options with pros and cons, seeking others' advice, and testing choices—plus how familiarity and marketing influence choices in daily life.

Identify the decision and clarify the goal, then gather information and weigh the evidence across alternatives. Choose among options, take action, and review the decision to improve future problem solving.

Navigate obstacles in decision making by acknowledging how information gaps, personal characteristics, outside pressure, and preconceptions shape choices, and learn practical tools to decide despite emotions.

Identify the first mistake in decision making as overvaluing the first information and undervaluing second and third information due to fear of loss.

Avoid the confirmation mistake in decision making by seeking objective input from others and gathering balanced information for all options, resisting emotional bias.

Delay decisions when emotions run high and apply emotional intelligence, then follow the seven steps of decision making to avoid regret.

Identify the mistake of chasing a perfect decision, overanalyzing with many options, and quitting the process. Make a decision, relax, and test the outcome.

Recognize how personal wishes can bias decision making and practice awareness to make mature choices, balancing dreams with practical goals like choosing law school to support family over art.

Apply both simple and advanced decision making tools, starting with pros and cons charts to weigh options like moving abroad, and choose the option with more positive signs.

Apply a four-question decision making tool to map outcomes, compare options, and reveal what will happen or won't happen, guiding you to the choice that aligns with your goals.

Explore the Grow model for practical problem solving and decision making, outlining goal, reality, options or obstacles, and will, with tips to apply and combine with pros and cons.

Master the PDCA decision making tool—plan, do, study, and act—to structure planning, testing, analysis, and implementation for complex health care decisions.

Apply the five whys technique, a simple and powerful decision-making tool that reveals rational roots behind problems by asking why five times, helping you uncover subconscious beliefs.