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IS-241.C: Decision Making and Problem Solving

Course Date 3/31/2014 Course Overview Being able to make decisions and solve problems effectively is a necessary and vital part of the job for every emergency manager, planner, and responder. This course is designed to improve your decision-making skills. It addresses: · How we make decisions. · Group decision making. · Crisis decision making. · Ethical decision making. Course Objectives : A t the end of this course, the participants will be able to: · Describe the impact of effective decision making in an emergency. · Identify attributes associated with an effective decision maker. · Describe the steps of the analytical problem-solving model. · Identify when group decision making is a good approach and methods for making a group’s decision-making process more effective. · Identify impediments to effective decision making in a crisis. · Describe strategies for enhancing crisis decision making. · Explain how ethical considerations impact decision making. Primary Audience All individuals involved in crisis and emergency management decision making. Prerequisites None CEUs: 0.2 Course Length: 2 hours
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IS-241.B: Decision Making and Problem Solving

IS-241.B: Decision Making and Problem Solving

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This course is designed to improve your decision-making skills.

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Course Overview

Being able to make decisions and solve problems effectively is a necessary and vital part of the job for every emergency manager, planner, and responder. This course is designed to improve your decision-making skills. It addresses:

  • How we make decisions.
  • Group decision making.
  • Crisis decision making.
  • Ethical decision making.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course, the participants will be able to:

  • Describe the impact of effective decision making in an emergency.
  • Identify attributes associated with an effective decision maker.
  • Describe the steps of the analytical problem-solving model.
  • Identify when group decision making is a good approach and methods for making a group’s decision-making process more effective.
  • Identify impediments to effective decision making in a crisis.
  • Describe strategies for enhancing crisis decision making.
  • Explain how ethical considerations impact decision making.

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All UNICEF staff

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At the completion of this course, participants should be able to:

  • Describe how decisions made before an emergency affect decision making and problem solving during an emergency.
  • Identify attributes associated with an effective decision maker.
  • Describe the steps in the problem-solving model.
  • Describe strategies for effective group decision making.
  • Describe crisis decision making and strategies for applying the problem-solving model.
  • Describe ethical decision making.

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Course Overview

Being able to make decisions and solve problems effectively is a necessary and vital part of the job for every emergency manager, planner, and responder. This course is designed to improve your decision-making skills. It addresses:

  • How we make decisions.
  • Group decision making.
  • Crisis decision making.
  • Ethical decision making.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course, the participants will be able to:

  • Describe the impact of effective decision making in an emergency.
  • Identify attributes associated with an effective decision maker.
  • Describe the steps of the analytical problem-solving model.
  • Identify when group decision making is a good approach and methods for making a group’s decision-making process more effective.
  • Identify impediments to effective decision making in a crisis.
  • Describe strategies for enhancing crisis decision making.
  • Explain how ethical considerations impact decision making.

Primary Audience

All individuals involved in crisis and emergency management decision making.

Prerequisites

Course length:.

21st Century FEMA Study Course: Decision Making and Problem Solving (IS-241.a) - Ethics, Brainstorming, Surveys, Problem-Solving Models, Groupthink, Discussion Groups, Case Studies

Decision making and problem solving (is-241.a) - ethics, brainstorming, surveys, problem-solving models, groupthink, discussion groups, case studies, publisher description.

This Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) independent training course manual from the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) is designed to improve your decision-making skills. It addresses: * The decision-making process * Decision-making styles * Attributes of an effective decision maker * Ethical decision making and problem solving Being able to make decisions and solve problems effectively is a necessary and vital part of the job for every emergency manager, planner, and responder. Decision making and problem solving are critically important skill areas for emergency managers, planners, first responders, voluntary agency coordinators, and other professionals in emergency management. As an emergency management professional, your ability to identify current and potential problems and to make sound, timely decisions before and during an emergency can literally affect the lives and well-being of the local citizenry. Your decisions can impact the ability of response agencies to do their jobs and can make the difference in how quickly the community is able to recover from an event. This is a privately authored news service and educational publication of Progressive Management.

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