Decision Making

Keywords: Reflective Decision Making, Biases & Emotions, Thinking fast – thinking slow, Dealing with and accepting own biases, beliefs, emotions and values in decision processes, Decision Making in Groups

Introduction to the course topics:

This course will not teach rational tools and how to use a point system in excel tables for making the one and only right decision. It rather claims guiding you through some self-reflective lessons to understand which biases, stereotypes and emotions influence your decisions – and why they do so. This course is about getting aware of own biases, actively accept them and understand where you might struggle in decision processes due to them. This will lead to better informed decisions, made more responsibly.

Course aims:

• Analyzing biased thinking and processes in daily working situations
• Making more deliberate decisions
• Be able to make decisions based on coaching-questions
• Get to know aspects influencing (un)aware moments in thinking and decision processes
• Get to know strategies how to deal with difficult and stressful situations in decision processes
• Understand, accept and deal with the fact that you cannot completely eliminate biases and (biased) emotions in decisions – make better decisions by knowing and accepting this

Teaching methods: Scientific input, work in goups, (own-)research, coaching-elements, peer-coaching & reflection, collegial advice

This course fits doctoral candidates in the following phase: at the beginning of the doctorate │ during the doctorate │ at the end of the doctorate

Participation requirements: none

Literature: none

Technical requirements: Laptop/tablet with stable internet connection, microphone, webcam, Zoom (in most cases)

Additonal information, notes: There will be homework between the sessions (1 hour between each session)

What participants say about this course:

• good mixture of interaction and input