Free Online Course: Decision Making and How to Choose the Right Problem to Solve

Future Learn is offering a free online course entitled “Decision Making: How to Choose the Right Problem to Solve”, which is 3-week course designed for people who want to build confidence in making informed decisions and using digital technology to communicate with others in the workplace. It will be useful to you if you would like to boost your problem solving and digital skills and improve your career prospects.

Details about the course:

• You’ll learn how to sharpen your decision-making and problem-solving skills so that you can quickly resolve issues.
• You’ll learn how to face challenges both in and out of the workplace by cultivating critical skills to help you identify the best possible solution.
• You’ll learn how to create a detailed plan to persuade others that your ideas will work.
• You’ll evaluate your existing problem-solving skills and learn how to build on them to be more successful.
• Experimenting with useful techniques for decision-making such as SWOT analysis, you’ll learn how to identify the real, underlying problems of a situation and how to set priorities when everything seems urgent.
• Create a business case alongside industry experts
• Once you’re able to identify a problem and understand it, you’ll learn how to explore the benefits and drawbacks of various solutions as well as the methods to minimise risks.

Topics covered:

• Explore the types of transferable skills that are needed to solve problems.
• Look at how to identify the real, underlying problems of a particular situation.
• Introduction to the SWOT analysis as a way of understanding the problem.
• Explore how to identify the best possible solution.
• Explore the benefits and risks of a solution.
• Explore tools to help pitch ideas to others in order to get buy-in.
• Create a business case which will be peer reviewed.

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:

• Evaluate personal skills for problem solving.
• Describe how problems exist in wider contexts.
• Develop an idea to approach a real life problem.
• Explore methods to minimise risk and turn ideas into plans.
• Explain the importance of the wider impact when proposing solutions.
• Produce a plan that persuades others your solution will work.