Advanced Decision Skills: Facilitation & Analysis Course

The first 4 days of this course make up the Decision Skills: Theory & Practice course. The Advanced programme then carries on for a further 5 days (Mon to Fri the following week). The final day of the course is a refresher 'Follow-up' day, held a month later.

This course provides an introduction to decision making with conflicting objectives, and provides opportunities for participants to gain hands-on experience in using Hiview3 and Equity3.

This will provide sound knowledge of how the software can be used to create decision-support models for evaluation and appraisal, and for budgeting, prioritisation and resource allocation.

It will also help develop participants’ skills in facilitating work groups and decision conferences. It also provides important material on understanding organisation, issues of accountability and authority, strategic thinking and process consultancy that will enhance participants’ ability to work effectively in organisations.

Much of the course is devoted to exercises in which participants take on roles of facilitator, analyst and participant for case studies using Hiview3 and Equity3 modelling.

As the model is completed, the facilitator takes the group through many analyses to develop a deeper understanding of the problem and help them to make recommendations for the way forward. Following a discussion of the nature of facilitation and the principles of process consultancy, the course closes with reflections on the process of facilitation.

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