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About the Course

Problem-solving and effective decision-making are essential skills in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing workplace. Both require a systematic yet creative approach to address today’s business concerns. This course will teach an overarching process of how to identify problems to generate potential solutions and how to apply decision-making styles in order to implement and assess those solutions. Through this process, you will gain confidence in assessing problems accurately, selecting the appropriate decision-making approaches for the situation at hand, making team decisions, and measuring the success of the solution’s implementation. Using case studies and situations encountered by class members, you will explore proven, successful problem-solving and decision-making models and methods that can be readily transferred to workplace projects. You will also learn to utilize frameworks like Root Cause Analysis and Decision Matrix tools. This course is for business professionals, managers, and team leaders seeking to enhance their strategic thinking and problem-solving skills. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Identify key terms, styles, and approaches to effective problem-solving and decision-making. 2. Explain how organizational decisions impact personal development, team dynamics, and company performance. 3. Reflect on how mindset and personal bias influence your ability to solve problems and make decisions. 4. Articulate how team decisions can benefit your professional growth and organizational strategy. To be successful in this course, you should have a basic understanding of business operations and team collaboration....

Top reviews

RB

Jan 26, 2016

This course has introduced me to different and useful methods of solving problems that I am excited to try applying on different issues. Thank you for providing it.

FG

Jun 2, 2022

B​asic course about therethical models to make decisions within standard situations in the work environment. less relevant for making individual decisions in the workplace.

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By Loh B H

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Mar 5, 2019

it helps my work to make better decision and problem solving

By John A

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Jul 4, 2018

Very focused on managing organizations. Excellent resources.

By RICO D

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Aug 21, 2023

very informative and well discussed with practical examples

By Prasad D

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Nov 21, 2016

Good course for working professionals especially Engineers.

By Muahmmad S

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Oct 12, 2016

Excellent course teaches how to deal in pressure situation.

By Sekar M ( O - B M

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Nov 2, 2020

Very good session and learnt lot from this course as well.

By Dr R I

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Sep 16, 2020

Good and Interesting....I learned new things through this!

By Aryan S

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Apr 9, 2020

The instructor isn't very friendly. Overall a good course.

By Wang B

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Jun 6, 2016

Very good course. You can get a common sensen how to make

By Octavian C

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Oct 16, 2015

Nice introduction to problem solving and decision making.

By Joginder S

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Sep 23, 2022

it can be made more knowledgeable and relevant to bel

By Antonio C

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Jun 8, 2020

Quizzes are too short and there should be 3 attempts.

By Dimash J

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Nov 11, 2020

A little hard to pass the tests. But, it does worth!

By Inderpreet K

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Apr 28, 2020

The presentation and examples could have been better

By Patricia P

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Jul 19, 2025

Very good information on working together as a team

By Pravin T

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Jan 3, 2019

Thank you for the wonderful knowledge base session.

By aman g

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Nov 2, 2015

Inroduced useful tools to deal with decision making

By kishor s

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Apr 29, 2020

Very Well Course for carrier Thanks Coursera Team

By Truong N Q

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Sep 6, 2015

Thanks for practical knowledge from this course

By ZHOU R

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Sep 1, 2015

very practical and useful!

clear pronunciation.

By Yasser C

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Sep 28, 2020

Very simple nice course i really did enjoy it

By G. R

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Sep 9, 2020

had a very good clarity about decision making

By Bijaya D

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Dec 13, 2017

Easy to understand for a beginner. Thank you

By Que A

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Mar 12, 2022

Easy to understand. But needs more practice

By Israa M S

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Nov 24, 2018

It was a very useful and beneficial course.