Mission-Critical Decisions

Description

This is Course #1 in a series of 8 courses on 'Mission-Critical Decision Making' from the Situation Engagement Academy.

The Academy teaches practical insights and latest research:

• about thriving in these disruptive, chaotic times,

• including useful ideas that are ignored or suppressed by conventional wisdom,

• in a multi-disciplinary approach to topics,

• of timely relevance and great benefit to a global community of students,

• at affordable costs.

Target students of Course #1 are:

Decision makers and their support staff in any type and size of enterprise or organisation where decisions discussed in group sessions can have a significant impact on mission objectives, and decision-owners are expected to:

• follow through until intended outcomes are achieved,

• understand the challenges involved, and assess potential or actual consequences,

• explain and/or document their reasoning, from the time when decisions are initially made, through any adjustments to changing circumstances, until actual outcomes occur (both intended and unintended).

This course teaches the key notions of Mission-Critical Decisions, which are the foundations on which subsequent courses in this series are based.

It explains …

1. Conventional thinking about decisions,

2. Why Mission-Critical Decisions are different.

3. How Situation Engagement helps.

4. The relevance of a decision ‘Context’,

5. How to ‘Focus’ on what is mission-critical,

6. .. and how to target intended outcomes in disruptive, chaotic circumstances.

After taking this course, you will be able to:

• Introduce an improved terminology for decision-making in your organization.

• Develop a common understanding of critically important situations for your organization.

• Focus your organization on those situations through situational awareness.

• Understand the interests and circumstances relevant to those situations.

• Build a shared understanding of their potential impacts.

• Make decisions with intended outcomes that resolve those situations.

• Follow changes in circumstances as they evolve, to verify intended outcomes remain relevant, and occur.

Course #1 also introduces the new academic/practitioner discipline called Situation Engagement.

Which is a new multi-disciplinary science of Decision Making, which incorporates and integrates:

• Situation Management

• Scenario Modelling

• Risk Management

• Crisis Management

• Case Investigation

• Profiling

• Potential Assessment

• Challenge Appraisal

• Mission Control

• Discovery

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