Master Reality-Based Decision Making: Empower Your Strategy Development Skills

 In today's fast-paced and dynamic business environment, effective decision-making is more critical than ever. Whether you're leading an organization, managing a team, or striving for personal growth, the ability to make reality-based decisions can significantly impact your success. Introducing our transformative online course: "Reality Based Decision Making for Effective Strategy Development."

Embrace Reality, Drive Success

At the heart of our course lies a humanist approach to critical thinking. We believe that by anchoring decisions in reality, individuals and organizations can navigate complexities with confidence and clarity. Our program equips participants with invaluable skills and techniques to hone their strategic acumen and foster a culture of informed decision-making.

What You'll Learn

Focus on the Real Problem: Learn a simple yet powerful technique to identify and address the core issue at hand, ensuring that your strategies tackle the root cause rather than surface-level symptoms.

Critical Thinking Skills: Explore the six essential critical thinking skills necessary to ground your strategies in reality. From analysis to inference, our course empowers you to dissect information, challenge assumptions, and arrive at well-informed conclusions.

Scientific Evaluation of Alternatives: Discover methodologies to objectively evaluate alternatives, employing scientific rigor to assess potential outcomes and mitigate risks effectively.

Learning Objectives

By enrolling in our course, you'll achieve the following objectives:

Master Organizational Change: Gain insights into developing, influencing, and executing strategies for managing organizational change, enabling you to navigate transitions with agility and foresight.

Strategic Decision-Making: Acquire the expertise to actively participate in strategic decision-making and due diligence activities, contributing valuable perspectives and insights to your organization's growth trajectory.

Strategic Planning Proficiency: Develop a comprehensive understanding of the strategic planning process, from design to implementation and evaluation, empowering you to drive impactful initiatives aligned with overarching goals and objectives.

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Whether you're a seasoned executive, a budding entrepreneur, or an aspiring leader, our course offers unparalleled value in enhancing your decision-making prowess. You'll gain practical insights and actionable strategies to navigate the complexities of modern business landscapes with confidence and conviction.

Earn Continuing Education Credits

For professionals seeking continuous growth and development, our course offers the added benefit of earning continuing education credits, ensuring that your investment in learning yields tangible rewards both personally and professionally.

Conclusion

In a world defined by uncertainty and ambiguity, the ability to make reality-based decisions stands as a hallmark of effective leadership and strategic vision. Join us on a transformative journey to unlock your full potential, drive meaningful change, and chart a course towards enduring success. Enroll in "Reality Based Decision Making for Effective Strategy Development" today and embark on a path of discovery, innovation, and unparalleled achievement.

Are you ready to shape your reality and shape your future? Enroll now and embrace the power of informed decision-making.

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Moral Independence and the Bildung Rose Model

 I got to interview Lene Rachel Anderson of the Bildung Rose Group about her moral model, the Bildung Rose. 

Bildung is the German idea of self cultivation.  It's a model of human moral development.  The Bildung Rose is a tool developed by Lene Rachel Anderson as a way to help us all think about the moral interconnections between different aspects of society, culture and corporations.  In other words, it's a really cool way to think about applied humanistic management. 

Here is a link to the video and to the resources Ms. Anderson talked about during our interview: http://humanisticmanagement.international/using-the-bildung-rose-as-a-strategic-diagnostic-tool/

My takeaways:

Basically, our moral development as humans moves from childhood, where we are largely emotional beings to our teens where were become rational beings to adulthood where, ideally, we become morally independent beings. 

It is when we become morally independent that we get TRUE freedom. Before then, we are limited by our emotions and the limits of our reasoning. Think of becoming morally independent as a state of enlightenment where are emotions and our rational selves are fully integrated and we can think independently of others about what is moral and not be swayed by immoral people. Freedom!

The Bildung Rose is a really helpful to me for organizing and integrating my thinking by helping me to explicitly list all the various things I should take into account when engaging in moral reasoning.   Here is a link to the website and the rose: http://bildungrose.com/  She explains it in the video which is linked above. 

The cool part her model was the fractal nature of the rose she uses to illustrate the tool. This can be you as an individual, you in group, the group in community/company, the community in state, state in country, country in world.  At all levels, the elements of the rose are in play. The challenge is, to balance them. 

What helps integrate the elements of the rose is the bottom part, narrative and ethics. It is what helps us want to make sure our thinking is inclusive and holistic. And this in turn, helps us create better outcomes and better more holistic solutions and yes, this is directly applicable to workplaces and problem solving in a business context.

The other thing I liked is that she is sure that when talking about ethics companies should bring in philosophers to help lead these discussion.  So – bring in me!

Which is more important: Effectiveness or Efficiency.

 Effectiveness is more important than efficiency.

Why?

At the end of the day, either the problem gets solved or it doesn’t. I don’t care how efficient a solution is, if it doesn’t solve my problem, I’ve still got a problem, except that I just wasted time on a solution that didn’t work.  

To me, it is more efficient to focus on whether something will be effective.   If I must solve a problem twice, because my first solution didn’t work, that’s not an efficient use of my time.

Learn more: 

Yes - I do have an online course that can help you learn how to solve problems effectively and efficiently. It's called Reality Based Decision Making for Effective Strategy Development.

https://humanistlearning.com/realitybaseddecisionmaking/

Topics Discussed

1) 1 simple technique to ensure you focus your real problem and not a proxy problem
2) 6 critical thinking skills necessary to ensure your strategy is reality based
3) How to evaluate your alternatives scientifically