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Decision Making and Problem Solving

IS-241.C

Course Overview

The goal of this course is to enable participants to improve their decision-making skills.

Course Objectives:

At the completion of this course, participants should be able to:

  • Describe how decisions made before an emergency affect decision making and problem solving during an emergency.
  • Identify attributes associated with an effective decision maker.
  • Describe the steps in the problem-solving model.
  • Describe strategies for effective group decision making.
  • Describe crisis decision making and strategies for applying the problem-solving model.
  • Describe ethical decision making.

Course Date

8/13/2021

Prerequisites

None

CEUs:

0.2

Course Length:

2 hours
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