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Problem Solving & Decision Making · Module 2

Making Better Decisions

Module 1 produced options. This module chooses between them — under uncertainty, with incomplete information, and against the biases that make people choose badly in predictable ways.

It ends where good practice ends: reviewing what happened, treating failure as data, and improving the process rather than just the outcome.

Lessons
7 lessons
Estimated time
~6-8 hours
Assessment
Module quiz included

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Lessons

Lesson 1 · 17 min

Decision Frameworks

Lesson 2 · 17 min

Risk, Trade-offs and Opportunity Cost

Lesson 3 · 18 min

Biases in Decision Making

Lesson 4 · 18 min

Solving Problems Collaboratively

Lesson 5 · 18 min

Learning from Failure

Lesson 6 · 17 min

Continuous Improvement

Lesson 7 · 25 min

Capstone: Solve a Real-World Challenge

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Making Better Decisions — Module Assessment

14 questions · pass mark 75%

  1. 1.What is 'resulting'?
  2. 2.What does a decision journal record, and when?
  3. 3.When is expected value the wrong tool?
  4. 4.What does it mean if an option appears to have no downside?
  5. 5.Why is a premortem more effective than asking 'what could go wrong?'
  6. 6.Why should sunk costs not influence a decision?
  7. 7.Why is awareness of a cognitive bias insufficient to counter it?
  8. 8.What is the outside view?
  9. 9.Why is unanimity in a group decision a warning sign?
  10. 10.What single step most improves a group decision?
  11. 11.What did Google's Project Aristotle identify as the strongest predictor of team effectiveness?
  12. 12.Why does blaming produce worse information in a post-mortem?
  13. 13.Which step of PDCA is most often dropped?
  14. 14.Name the three kinds of failure and the right response to each.
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