Decision Focus Video series
12 short videos explore the elements of Decision Quality and topics like process and responsible vs risky decisions.
Learn and teach Decision Skills. This series carries the content, so an educator doesn't need to be the expert, just engage students with activities that are relevant to their lives.
Decision Focus is the backbone around which additional curriculum and courses for students and educators are built.
What's a Good Decision
As a first step to defining Decision Quality, this video introduces the six essential elements of the Decision Chain.
Decision Traps
The human brain takes shortcuts that undermine decision quality. We have to understand behavioral traps in order to avoid them and be decision fit.
Helpful Frame
Learn a three component method to clarify the decision being tackled.
Clear Values
Prioritizing your values helps clarify your possible choices.
Creative Alternatives
The quality of a decision is limited by the alternatives we consider.
Important Information
Consciously considering information needs and gathering useful information before we act is essential to good decision-making.
Reasoning - Weight & Rate Tables
Reasoning is the process of combining alternatives, information, and values to arrive at a decision.
Sound Reasoning - Decision Trees
Reasoning with Decision Trees helps to complete the sentence, “I am choosing this alternative because…“
Commitment to Follow Through
Commitment to follow through means we are set to execute our decision and can do so purposefully.
Appropriate Decision Process
Learn a process that addresses the elements of a decision in a sensible order and iterates.
Responsible Decisions
Responsibility is the other side of freedom.
Risky Decisions
Teenagers taking risks is a natural part of development.