Tough Decisions Programme

You will learn a lot about yourself on the Tough Decisions Programme

You will also learn some good ways to conquer tough decisions and difficult dilemmas. And you will avoid traps that await the unwary, significantly reduce future anxiety levels, and get better decision outcomes.

This programme has been designed for managers and executives and this video will introduce you to what it is about:-

Consider for a moment...

 -   Why would you carry on as now , when, with a bit of learning, you can prepare myself for future tough decisions?

 - Why needlessly expose yourself to more anxiety than you need to, when you know there are ways to reduce it?

 - Why keep making the same type of bad decisions, when you can discover what to do to make better ones?

 - Why would you risk a loss or waste of time and money, when a better decision could have made me a gain?

This is how the programme is structured to help you

The objective is to put you in a position so that fuure tough decisions become less tough or not tough at all,  and give you a way to handle any that remain tough.

There are four sections in the programme.

Section 1 takes as a starting point the question of what makes a decision tough. You are offered a dilemma to resolve given some basic information. After that, the context of the dilemma is changed to help you discover what makes some decisions tougher than others and what you may need to resolve them.

Section 2 examines how you can avoid some type of tough decision altogether and then concentrates on you as an individual. How tough a decision is varies between individuals. By getting some key thinking in place, this section helps you reduce the toughness of a decision. You will learn a lot about yourself here.

Section 3 offers you a way of dealing with a tough decision when you are immersed in it. It integrates what you have learnt in the previous section with other decision making techniques.

Section 4 offers you a couple of techniques that are useful for team decisions.

If you have absorbed the programme well, you should be able to run a seminar on it for others. That's the standard we are aiming for. Right at the very end there is information and materials to run just such a seminar. 

How does it work?

This programme is completely web based. No CDs / DVDs to mess about with. No manuals to struggle with. You can copy the web pages if you wish to do some learning away from the internet.

Each section also comprises a number of modules.  The methods are in the modules.  Each module contains a mixture of video clips, audio clips, text and some challenging questions. There are over 30 modules.

Being web based does not mean you do not have a guide. Before you start any section, there is an audio clip to outline what the section is about and how to approach it. When you finish a section, there is an audio clip about the critical points and a challenge for you to take some actions to commit what you have learnt to long term memory. The audio clips help you get the best out of what you will learn, what you can learn, and what you have learnt.

Be prepared!

Most of the modules introduce you to something new. The modules then challenge you to remember it, and apply it. A technique may fade from memory if you just read it. It needs to be experienced or followed through. The programme is designed to help you do that. It turns nice ideas into beneficial resources.

Be prepared to be challenged. If you continue to think as you do now, you will continue to be as you are now, rather than what you could be. We supply the new thinking and the challenges to help you make a change, if that is what you decide to do.

How long does the programme take?

This is no 'instant read and instant forget' programme. It is a real learning programme. It is there to help you develop beneficial approaches and habits. Some habits take a little time to form. You can reasonably cover two to four modules a day. For the first section we pace you, and thereafter you decide the pace you want to go.

The programme, if you absorb the techniques and gain the benefit from them, could take you just over two weeks at about an hour a day for most days, but you decide the pace. 

 Recognise that you have tough decisions ahead of you.

Read and familiarise yourself with what this programme is about.

Realise that you could find this a very affordable way to prepare yourself for taking better decisions.

Remember that unless you take some action now you will be unprepared for when you need to be.

Price £75 + £15 VAT = £90

There is a simple 3 step process involved in signing up. When you press the Sign up button above:-

(1) You will be taken to a simple sign up form to set a user name and password to the Jigsaw Box Learning system on which this programme is based. You complete six items of information in the form on the second part of the page and then press register.

(2) You are now taken to Paypal. If you don't have an account you register your card with them and once you have done that you go through to a screen which shows the payment above and confirms your 7 day free trial.

(3) After you have agreed for the the payment to take place in 7 days, you will return to a web page confirming your user name and password are active and you can sign in. You will also separately receive an email confirming your log in details (password etc.)

When you log in you will see a screen like the one in the short video clip below. That is your learning package dashboard.
The video clip will show you how simple it is to use. It will also show you the top part of the first module (the video clips and audio clips are just out of view!)