problem solving and decision making skills

What are problem solving and decision making skills

These skills are about using critical and logical thinking, as well as creative thinking to make sense of a situation and figure out the most appropriate action or response to find out a solution.

Why are these skills important

Everyone experiences problems and obstacles in their everyday life and learning how to deal with these barriers are essential to identify challenges, overcome these challenges, make informed decisions, and to innovate and adapt to environments and situations.

Resilience

Resilience is the skill and capacity to be able to overcome any obstacles or challenges. This is the most important skill that you can learn to improve problem solving and decision making skills. You can improve you resilience by introducing and implementing all seven steps in the process below into your every day life.

Steps for developing these skills

A SEVEN STEP PROCESS

Step 1: Define the problem

Knowing where the the problem starts is the most essential part to overcoming obstacles. How will you know how to solve a problem if you do not know what the problem is?

Step 2: analyse the problem

Understanding what is causing the problem is a key part to finding a solution to it. This is a more challenging step but is necessary if you want to improve your ability to overcome obstacles.

Step 3: develop potential solutions

Brainstorming is a very good strategy for finding potential solutions. You always want to think of every possible solution to a problem if you want to find the best option.

Step 4: evaluate the options

After brainstorming every solution to a problem it is now time to decide which would suit the situation the best. A good strategy would be trial and error.

Step 5: select the best option

While evaluating all the viable options it is necessary to see which is best fit for the situation and checks off all the required criteria.

Step 6: implement the solution

This step includes creating a plan and breaking down that plan into actionable steps. Then fulfilling these steps to get your desired goal.

Step 7: measure the results

Keep track of the outcomes and see where you could have improved or where you strived and learn from the results.

What does applying these problem solving skills look like?

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