Picture credit - Peter Pappas
Day 11 - Decision-Making Skill
What is Decision-Making Skill?
Decision-Making Skill is the ability to use a decision making process/ technique to arrive at a decision.
How to improve Decision-Making Skill?
Set a goal to become a go-to person by mastering the art and science of Decision-Making.
Follow the LAST model to build your personal brand as a Guru of Decision-Making.
- Learn - Invest time in learning different models/ techniques of Decision-Making
- Apply -
- Identify a model suitable to you
- Create a template to document the flow of the process
- Find opportunities to use the selected method/ template
- Maintain record/ process flow of every decision you make
- Maintain notes of your thoughts/ insights/ failures/ challenges…. to be used for sharing/ training others
- Share - Share the insights captured in step 2 above in a planned manner (social media posts, blogs, videos, study notes…)
- Train - Generate opportunities to train your peers and team members so that, over time, your organization benefits from your efforts
My learning for the day
Source - Decision Tree Examples
Author - Silvia Valcheva
A decision tree is a visual representation of possible solutions to a decision. It uses a tree-like model of decisions and their possible consequences. Decision trees are a popular tool these days in machine learning.
A decision tree consists of three types of nodes - Decision nodes – typically represented by squares, Chance nodes – typically represented by circles, End nodes – typically represented by triangles. The decision tree starts with a specific decision. This decision is depicted with a box – the root node.
Decision Tree Examples
Silvia Valcheva, the author of this article, has provided some wonderful examples. I reproduce two of them here. Thanks Silvia.
Enjoy the chaos that happens during decision making - a 90 seconds video from QuestionPro Thanks #QuestionPro
Purpose of this document
I took a 66 day challenge to study Life Skills last year (10 April 2019). To my astonishment, I succeeded in studying for 66 days one skill a day.
My objectives of learning these skills were - To strengthen my mind to face life’s challenges with ease, To use these skills in my worklife for a better performance, To use these skills in my personal life for enriching my relationships, To open new possibilities to surprise myself.
This is my next 66 day challenge (from 10 April 2020) - To share my Life Skills learning with my social media friends.
I pray that my toil helps you in your success journey.
What are Life Skills?
UNICEF defines Life skills as - psychosocial abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. They are loosely grouped into three broad categories of skills
- cognitive skills for analyzing and using information,
- personal skills for developing personal agency and managing oneself,
- inter-personal skills for communicating and interacting effectively with others.
Which LifeSkills are covered?
The World Health Organisation identified these basic areas of life skills that are relevant across cultures:
- Decision-making
- Problem-solving
- Creative thinking
- Critical thinking
- Communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Self-awareness
- Empathy
- Coping with emotions
- Coping with stress.
Some trivia
‘Life skills’ was never part of the school curriculum. WHO/ UNESCO mandated academia to teach these skills in all schools across the globe in 1993.
Different countries educate their children in these skills with different objectives
- Zimbabwe and Thailand - prevention of HIV/AIDS
- Mexico - prevention of adolescent pregnancy
- United Kingdom - child abuse prevention
- USA - prevention of substance abuse and violence
- South Africa and Colombia - positive socialization of children.
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