PD Training’s Problem Solving and Decision Making Training course teaches you how to identify problems as well as the steps and tools that will help you to arrive at rational decisions based on facts and good judgment.

After completing this 2-day course, you will have learned:  how to identify a problem, types of decisions, steps and tools in problem solving, analysis of information about the problem, how to be an active member of the problem-solving team, selecting the best solution and creating a plan for its implementation, how to avoid common decision-making mistakes and much more.

This comprehensive training course is available across the U.S., including Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Jackson, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Miami, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, San Antonio and Seattle.

Your Learning Outcomes

This short and dynamic training course is the fastest way to develop skills in effective decision making so that goals can be reached on time every time.

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

  • Apply problem solving steps and tools
  • Analyze information to clearly describe problems
  • Identify appropriate solutions
  • Think creatively and be a contributing member of a problem solving team
  • Select the best approach for making decisions
  • Create a plan for implementing, evaluating, and following up on decisions
  • Avoid common decision-making mistakes
  • Understand problem-solving
  • Make correct and timely decisions
  • Use problem solving model and toolkit
  • Use SWOT Analysis
  • Make good group decisions
  • Analyze and select solutions
  • Plan and organize

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Derrick (trainer) was awesome, informative, witty, sharp and articulate. I would definitely attend another seminar that Derrick is presenting at.

Fantastic knowledge and enthusiasm. Had a really good day, was fun, informative and useful both for my professional and personal lives.

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12-months access to the unique REACH Future Proofing Personal Development Dashboard with personally curated learning to develop agility to adapt to different people tasks and situations.

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Correct and timely decision making can be done using specific techniques and enhanced knowledge of the self and situations. During this Decision Making Training Course, participants receive training in applying problem solving to help decision making, identify appropriate solutions, use creativity, evaluate situations and people, predict outcomes, and more.

Having a process to work through can take the anxiety out of problem-solving and make decision-making easier. That’s what this two-day workshop is all about.

Course Outline for Problem Solving and Decision Making Training

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

Topic 1

Introduction

  • Icebreaker
  • Housekeeping Items
  • The Parking Lot
  • Workshop Objectives

Topic 2

Getting Real

  • Pre-Assignment Review
  • Debrief

Topic 3

Definitions

  • Defining Problem Solving & Decision Making
  • Problem Identification
  • Eight Essentials to Defining a Problem
  • Problem Solving in Action

Topic 4

The Problem Solving Model

  • Model Overview
  • Real Problems
  • Debrief
  • Phase One
  • Phase Two
  • Phase Three

Topic 5

Making Decisions

  • What it Means
  • Types of Decisions
  • Facts vs. Information
  • Decision-Making Traps

Topic 6

Case Study

  • The Truck
  • Debrief

Topic 7

The Problem Solving Toolkit

  • The Basic Tools
  • The Fishbone
  • Degrees of Support
  • Creative Thinking Methods
  • Brainstorming & Brainwriting
  • Debrief
  • More Methods

Topic 8

Making Good Group Decisions

  • Working Toward the Decision
  • Avoiding Fatal Mistakes

Topic 9

Aspirinia

  • Decision Information
  • Individual Actions Steps
  • Group Planning
  • Exercise Debrief

Topic 10

Analyzing & Selecting Solutions

  • Selecting Criteria
  • Creating a Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Debrief

Topic 11

Swotting Up

  • SWOT Analysis
  • Individual Analysis

Topic 12

Planning & Organizing

  • Introduction
  • Follow-Up Analysis
  • Evaluate
  • Adapt, Close & Celebrate

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Plus you’ll also receive:

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Money Back
Guarantee

If you’re not happy with the outcomes from
the course we offer a money back guarantee

profiles

REACH
Profiles

For every participant
valued at $199 each

sick

Sick Day
Safety Net

No one left behind
with our 1/2 price re-run promise

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Development
Dashboard

12-months access to the unique REACH Future Proofing Personal Development Dashboard with personally curated learning to develop agility to adapt to different people tasks and situations.

Learn Problem Solving and Decision Making Training Now

We create training that meets your needs.

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3-hour Power Sessions

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  • AT YOUR WORKPLACE
  • ONLINE

We’ll make things easier so you can focus on adding more value

We take care of all of the details, so you don’t have to:

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    In Sheet
  • Generate Branded
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  • PDF’S of
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  • Collects and
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  • Complete Results
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What are people going to do differently?

At the completion of training participants are encouraged to create an action plan, and invite an accountability buddy via their Orgmenta App.

In your Training Management Centre you have transparency to the action plans so you can see what people are going to do differently.

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Our systems and people make it easy to identify how you’ll be able to measure impacts and then report on the success in the weeks or months after training.

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