Sixth Sense Whole Body Decisions
A Foundation For Personal and Professional Achievement
Today, we are in a new era in project management that requires a more balanced approach. The necessary technical skills are not enough to successfully manage projects. Sixth Sense skills are the core skills to a more balanced approach to project management. There are six disciplines that define Sixth Sense skills and Whole Body Decisions is the second. You need to know how to make decisions to manage projects to get better results. Developing and practicing the core skills of Whole Body Decisions will help you in personal development and professional advancement.
Why Whole Body Decisions is important?
Learn how to use your brain, heart and gut to make great decisions in your project environment. With the knowledge and skills to do this, you can improve your decision making and increase the success of your projects.
In this online course (4 PDUs), we will cover the following topics…
Fundamental Concepts
Recognize your “gut instincts” as well as non-verbal cues from those around you. Science has discovered that all decisions involve emotions. Learn to be aware of your emotions and the emotions of other people working with you on a decision and recognize how emotions may influence decision making. Understand decision timing and taking the “right” amount of time to make decisions. Improve effectiveness in decision making by being very deliberate in making decisions but using a flexible approach rather than applying rigid constructs. Understand how a team can help you make a decision and how you can help a team make a decision.
The 8 Steps To Decision Making
We have identified 8 steps to follow when making a decision. These steps are not meant to be followed rigidly but used according to the circumstances you find yourself in. In the course we will explain the following steps:
• Acknowledge that a decision has to be made
• Identify the desired outcomes
• Identify the possible choices
• Determine who will be part of the process
• Identify sources of information
• Document the decision making criteria
• Evaluate
• Decide!
Key Skills Developed
• Become conscious and deliberate about making decisions
• Follow the 8 steps to making a decision while remaining flexible
• Listen to your mind, heart and gut to make better decisions than just using rational analysis
• Recognize that every decision involves emotion (yours and others) and what to do about it
• Balance time and effort to make a decision
Other Information
This course addresses the following key process groups and knowledge areas of the PMBOK® Guide:
PMBOK® Guide Process Groups:
• Planning Process Group
• Executing Process Group
• Monitoring & Controlling Process GroupPMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas
• Project Management Integration
• Project Scope Management
• Project Time Management
• Project Cost Management
• Project Quality Management
• Project Human Resource Management
• Project Communications Management
• Project Risk Management Management
• Project Procurement Management
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