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5 Steps to Good Decisions!™ | Decision-Making Training Activity
5 Steps to Good Decisions!™ | Decision-Making Training Activity
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A realistic, exciting scenario demonstrates the value of a structured approach to team decision-making.
A logical decision-making procedure
To identify - early on - any constraints
To decide what information must be sought
To identify significant points in information
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$508.00
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Product details
- Type Training Activity
- Timing 1.5 hours + debrief
- Use Face-to-Face
- Target Audience All Levels
- Min Participants 3
- Max Participants* 24
- *More delegates? Contact Us
- Computer Required No
- Printer Required No
- Supply Format Hard Copy
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Northgate says...
"Highlights the importance of a structured approach to decision-making but at the same time involves a number of other, complimentary, workplace skills: teamwork, setting objectives, leadership, planning, managing conflict and managing a budget. "
- A logical decision-making procedure
- To identify - early on - any constraints
- To decide what information must be sought
- To identify significant points in information
- To establish a list of alternative solutions
- To evaluate the alternatives
- To take responsibility for consequences of their decisions
- What it takes to work as a team
Ideally suited to:
Allows people to practise making important decisions in a risk-free environment.
In this decision-making training activity, teams represent Local Pollution Officers and must protect a stretch of African coastline in the event of an oil spill at sea. Tankers passing close to the shore are a constant threat to the environment and the livelihood of the local community. With a budget of $30,000 teams make contingencies to deal with the possibility of a 1,000 barrel spill. As yet there is no oil spill but after teams have made their decisions news breaks of a spill and the success of their contingencies is put to the test.
A Team Brief explains the task and gives basic information and a sketch map showing critical areas such as fishing grounds, beaches, lagoons etc. But further information: the methods for dealing with oil on the sea, the effect of the weather etc must be obtained from a Data Bank (of just eight Data Cards). Teams need of course to ask the right questions and be prepared to pay (out of their budget). And the Data Bank opens only intermittently so teams need to be well prepared before ‘opening time’.
Once teams have all the data they review alternatives, make final decisions, allocate budget. They then submit their contingency plans on an Anti-Pollution Planning Form.
At this point teams receive news of an actual spill at sea - and their plans are put to the test. Working through an Incident Response Form exposes to teams how well their plans cope with the actual incident.
A discussion and debrief follows where the whole group can discuss performance, air views and list the learning points (all covered in the Trainer’s Notes). Finally scores are announced.
Highly motivating, fun, lots of learning!
- Divide group into teams, briefly introduce the training activity and issue Team Briefs.
- Observe teams in action, note how they work as a team, how they organise themselves, how they decide what information to seek. Do they discuss costs and budgeting?
- Announce Data Bank opening, receive data requests, hand back relevant data (and repeat process at two further intervals, as per Trainer’s Notes). Observe how teams handle data.
- Issue Anti-Pollution Planning Forms to teams and when completed, collect them up.
- Issue Incident Report Forms and announce details of an oil spill: map ref, size, time of day etc. Allow time for teams to complete their report on how they deploy their resources.
- End the session by issuing Team Review Forms to complete – ready for the debrief.
- Lead the debrief bringing out key learning and especially the FIVE steps to good decisions!
Full guidance supplied in the Trainer’s Notes.
- Trainer's Notes
- Team Briefs & Rulers
- Sets of Eight Datacards
- Trainer's Data Card Record Sheet
- Data Request Forms
- Planning Forms
- Incident Response Forms
- Team Review Forms
This activity is supplied as a hard copy pack.
Our licence offering is designed to provide exceptional value and flexibility for your organisational training needs.
Upon purchase, each Northgate activity includes a five-year licence for repeat use, with up to a maximum number of delegates per training session. The maximum number of delegates permitted for this activity is 24. This grants you the freedom to use the activity repeatedly, with the specified maximum number of delegates, for five years.
All Learning and Development (L&D) professionals based at the same site (or ‘remote hub’) as you are granted access to these resources, including to the digital files on the Trainerhub via your site-specific Trainer Dashboard, fostering a collaborative spirit within your immediate team.
Should you wish to make this activity available to a wider audience within your organisation, additional licences are required. We understand the varying needs of different organisations and aim to provide flexible options to suit your requirements.
For further information on our licence terms, please contact us. We are here to assist you in enhancing your training initiatives and ensuring a seamless and hassle-free licensing experience.
To use with more than 24 or for multiple site licences please contact us for a quote.
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Dr Evangelos Kitsos, Senior Teaching Fellow, WMG, University of Warwick '5 Steps to Good Decisions!' is extremely useful for reflecting on the whole decision-making process.
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Anne Grove, Global Head - HR & Development , Cmed Ltd '5 Steps to Good Decisions!' was brilliant! Northgate is my favourite provider of learning activities.
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J. E. Rowland, Royal Devonport Dockyard (Babcock Intl Group) Everything produced by Northgate is well designed, of the highest quality and promotes a great deal of learning.
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C. Fleming, MA Partnership I liked '5 Steps to Good Decisions!' and will use it again. It has many other possible uses - teamwork, planning, problem solving, information analysis.
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