| BUSINESS CHALLENGE
Management has been defined as ”constant problem solving”.
Everyday business change creates a multitude of management challenges, otherwise known as problems. If you constantly face the unexpected, it's time to learn some strategies for converting these challenges to advantages.
Problem Solving and Decision Making offers solutions to everyday business headaches. By developing improved planning systems and implementation skills you minimise problems. By employing appropriate techniques of management you identify emerging problems before they take effect. By employing appropriate problem solving strategies you convert the challenge to an advantage.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Team members or managers who have to make daily business decisions. Those who want to improve their ability to create a ‘problem free’ business environment and those who wish to hone their effectiveness in identifying and implementing appropriate solutions.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
As a result of this learning initiative you will:
- Use a valid framework to approach decision making and problem solving
- Discover and critically evaluate your own decision making style
- Develop skills for problem identification and analysis
- Identify and assess relevant factor, and distinguish between symptoms and causes
- Understand how much to isolate the options and select the best possible solutions
- Discover the benefits of team problem solving and experience the power of synergy
- Understand how you get team members to buy-in to the resultant plan, decision and solution
- Be able to isolate the problems of "groupthink" and show how they might be avoided
- Understand the linear programming and decision trees.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
A highly practical and applied learning workshop. This programme applies the processes, tools and techniques of Problem Solving and Decision Making through the use of real-life situations and a high degree of practical business focus.
IN-COMPANY OPTION
NZIM will partner with you to deliver a customised programme for your organisation. NZIM partner with some of New Zealand’s leading organisations, to deliver high quality learning programmes, designed to meet specific organisational needs.
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