About this course

Proficiency Area: Planning.

Decision-making is the ability of an organization's leaders to effectively make decisions.

In the first lesson toward your silverSMerit badge, you'll explore:

  • How action-planning can help support improved decision-making.

  • Using "gist" questions to understand how to approach a decision.

  • How to select a decision-analysis approach.

  • Four ways to approach a decision: double-loop learning, risk analysis (using a Rumsfeld matrix), scenario planning, and cost-benefit analysis.

Course curriculum

    1. What you can expect in this badge

    2. Before we begin...

    3. Putting Your Decision-Making Abilities Into Practice

    1. Action Planning to Improve Your Decision Making

    2. Action Planning to Improve Your Organization's Decision Making

    3. Check your learning

    1. Improving Decision-Making Practices in Your Nonprofit

About this course

  • Free
  • 7 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

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