Interest-Based Decision-Making
Facilitator: Brigitte Marshall, Former Adult Education Administrator, Oakland Unified School District
When presented with a problem or a challenge, we usually want to start working on identifying a solution as soon as possible. Strong emotional attachments can cause people to take entrenched positions on problems about which a decision must be made. Competing positions often mean that any given solution will require compromise and negotiation and generally involves winners and losers. When decision-makers make the time to discover the interests and needs that are behind a position and then look for common interests to inform the decision, they create potential for a win-win outcome. In this webinar participants will learn a simple, step-by-step process for interest-based decision making that can be applied to the full range of decisions that adult education professionals make.
AUDIENCE: Administrators
TOPIC: Administration & Management
PUBLISH DATE: May 2018