Effective Decision Making Skills for Career and Life for TakeCharge

I like helping people, especially undergrads and grads in finding their career based on their strengths.  Having 20 years HR experience from seven different industries, I've seen first hand the "unforced" errors made by candidates who I interviewed.  Not all were junior, first time interviewees.  I felt it was quite sad that they made these errors because they didn't know better. So, ever since I started out on my entrepreneurial journey, I ensured that Strengths-based Career Coaching and Career Transition Coaching were a part of my service offerings.  

I joined Take Charge about three years ago as a Mentor, to give back and help the youth.  Click here to read more about Take Charge

During a discussion with the organizing team at Take Charge, it came out that the mentees were requesting some training on topics like convincing others (Influencing), making career and life choices, and dealing with disagreements. We know that we're drowning in information, and making decisions would be more challenging for those who younger, even though they navigate the digital world better than us more experienced folks.  

I offered to do a pro-bono session on Decision-Making for them, because when one is clear about how they arrived at a decision, it becomes easier to convince others, even there is an atmosphere of disagreement.  I had the experience of having conducted two-day workshops on this topic for corporates.

My challenge here - I was given two and half hours (woefully insufficient).  I really had to slash and squeeze the content (with exercises) into that timeframe.  I designed a workbook with articles. interactive exercises, group discussions around assumptions, and made them work with a couple of decision making models.

The big plus - everyone that turned up put their heart and soul in participating in the sessions.  That made the session much more stronger than it would have been.  Here are some pics of the action:

Expectations

Their Icebreaking Questions

 

Icebreaking in progress

Sharing key points from Group Discussions

Their Insights and Actions

Post Script - Another workshop is being organized in the near future to cover other key content under this topic that was included in this session.

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