1. Your Decisions IPR

2. Your Values  Values – the principals, concepts (ideas), and beliefs that are most important to you.  May include:  Love  Knowledge  Honesty  Religion  Power  Health  Friendships

3. How Are Values Formed?  Creating a system of priorities  Priorities – A list of concepts, beliefs, or tasks ranked in order of importance  Influences of family  Choices of your friends  Culture and traditions  Environment

4. Question #1  How do values influence decisions?

5. Setting Your Goals  Goal – something you want to achieve or obtain  Short-term Goals – goals you hope to reach in the near future – the next hour, day, or week.  Long-term Goals – goals you want to achieve in the next year or several years

6.  Short Term and Long Term Goals WS

7.  Understanding Goals WS

8. Question #2  What are your short term goals?

9. Question #3  What are your long term goals?

10. Individual Life Cycle  Individual Life Cycle – From birth to death, and everything that happens in between.  You should use your individual life cycle to set your goals.  You can make a time/life line  Education  Career  Marriage  Family

11. Identifying Your Resources  Human Resources – resources that come from a person  From within yourself and the people who support you  Helping yourself and helping others make choices and meet new challenges  Non-human Resources – resources that are not physically a part of any individual  Money, material possessions, and community resources and facilities

12. Set Your Standards  Standards – levels of achievements  Measures that show you how you are doing in reaching your goals  Help you determine whether you are reaching your goals.  Personal Standards – standards you set for yourself  Conventional Standards – standards commonly accepted by society

13. Making Decisions  Critical Thinking – involves careful examination of an issue to reach an informed conclusion  When you make a decision, you make a choice or a judgement  You make many decisions everyday

14.  Ways To Make A Decision WS  Case Studies For Decision Making WS

15. The Decision Making Process Decision Making Process – step-by-step process you can use to make decisions and solve problems 1.Identify the decision to be made 2.Gather and examine information 3.Identify possible alternatives 4.Evaluate the consequences of each alternative 5.Choose the best alternative and act on it 6.Evaluate the results

16.  The Decision Making Process WS

17. The Management Process  Manage – direct, control or administer  Management process – four steps: setting a goal, making a plan that includes the use of resource, carrying out the plan, and evaluating.  Used to make decisions both big and small

18. The Management Process  Step 1 – Setting a Goal  Setting a goal to use to make a decision based on your values or ideas about what is important  Step 2 – Making a Plan  Think through and list the steps you will need to accomplish to make the event a success  Step 3 – Carrying out the Plan  Most exciting part  Your plan is tested, and your dreams may or may not become reality  Step 4 – Evaluating  Assess the degree of success in meeting your goal