1. Using soft skills in non-formal education
Understanding decision making

2. Decision making : Introduction
Welcome
Combination
Individual exercise
Team exercises
YES / NO game for teams

3. 1. Project Planning Exercise

4. ACTIVITY 1: PROJECT PLANNING EXERCISE
Individual and team exercise
The situation
The task

5. INDIVIDUAL EXERCISE
Rank management activities from I to XV

6. TEAM EXERCISE Rank management activities from I to XV
Transfer expert’s ranking
Calculations
Individual ranking versus expert’s ranking
Team ranking versus expert’s ranking
Average indivual score

7. Average Individual Score
Group score
Average Individual Score
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6

8. 2. Reflecting focus on decision making process

9. ACTIVITY 2: REFLECTING ON DECISION MAKING PROCESS
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats

10. 3. Various apects and processes of decision making

11. ACTIVITY 3: VARIOUS ASPECTS AND PROCESSES OF DECISION MAKING
Decision = choice between actions
No standard procedures
Some important features
Speed of the decision making process
Degree of rationality
Degree of acceptance

12. SIX ELEMENTS IN DECISION MAKING
Decision-maker
Goals to be served
Preference of value system
Strategies
States of nature
Outcome

13. SEVEN STEPS IN DECISION MAKING PROCESS
Analyse
Collect facts
Analyse factors
New ways to tackle
Look alternatives
Decide action
Follow up

14. CONCLUSION DECISION MAKING
Style of decision making – type of leadership
Scientific decision theories – situational needs
Difficulty factors not controlled by the decision- maker
Decision-maker can only decide on available information, accumulated experience, etc.
Decision making is both scientific process and a delicate art

15. Decision making closing activity VISUALISATION