#SS-02-14 Decision Making: How to Choose the Right Problem to Solve
About Course
University of LeedsDescription
Learn how to get others on board with your decision-making and minimise risk
On this course, you’ll learn how to better solve simple problems and sharpen your decision-making process.
You’ll evaluate your existing problem-solving technique and build the skills to improve it.
As you learn what transferable skills are required, you’ll discover how to identify a problem, how to understand it and how to analyse the associated risks and benefits of various solutions.
You’ll also spend time producing a detailed plan to persuade others that your own solution is workable.
Who will you learn with?
I’m a creative digital producer and product manager, and helped establish the National Film and Television School’s first digital producing course. I have a secret double life as an artist.
Who developed the course?
As one of the UK’s largest research-based universities, the University of Leeds is a member of the prestigious Russell Group and a centre of excellence for teaching.
What Will I Learn?
- 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
Topics for this course
Problem-solving skills
Learning to solve problems at work00:04:54
How can you improve your problem solving skills?
Finding a problem to solve
Choose the best solution
At the end of the course, I began to learn to spend time making a detailed plan to convince others that my solution was feasible.
I have to say that the course was a good one. It taught me how to identify a problem, how to understand it, and how to analyze the risks and benefits associated with various solutions. It has given me a great improvement in my way of doing things.
This course teaches you how to evaluate your existing problem-solving skills and build on them to improve it. It's very elaborate.
In this course I learned how to better solve simple problems and improve the decision-making process. Very practical course.
This course teaches us how to involve others in your decisions and minimize risk, which is difficult and worth learning.