Your DecisionsIPR

Your Values

Values – the principals, concepts (ideas), and beliefs that are most important to you.

May include: Love

Knowledge

Honesty

Religion

Power

Health

Friendships

How Are Values Formed?

Creating a system of priorities Priorities – A list of concepts, beliefs, or tasks ranked in order

of importance

Influences of family

Choices of your friends

Culture and traditions

Environment

Question #1

How do values influence decisions?

Setting Your Goals

Goal – something you want to achieve or obtain

Short-term Goals – goals you hope to reach in the near future – the next hour, day, or week.

Long-term Goals – goals you want to achieve in the next year or several years

Short Term and Long Term Goals WS

Understanding Goals WS

Question #2

What are your short term goals?

Question #3

What are your long term goals?

Individual Life Cycle

Individual Life Cycle – From birth to death, and everything that happens in between.

You should use your individual life cycle to set your goals. You can make a time/life line

Education

Career

Marriage

Family

Identifying Your Resources

Human Resources – resources that come from a person From within yourself and the people who support you

Helping yourself and helping others make choices and meet new challenges

Non-human Resources – resources that are not physically a part of any individual Money, material possessions, and community resources and

facilities

Set Your Standards

Standards – levels of achievements

Measures that show you how you are doing in reaching your goals Help you determine whether you are reaching your goals.

Personal Standards – standards you set for yourself

Conventional Standards – standards commonly accepted by society

Making Decisions

Critical Thinking – involves careful examination of an issue to reach an informed conclusion

When you make a decision, you make a choice or a judgement

You make many decisions everyday

Ways To Make A Decision WS

Case Studies For Decision Making WS

The Decision Making Process

Decision Making Process – step-by-step process you can use to make decisions and solve problems

1. Identify the decision to be made

2. Gather and examine information

3. Identify possible alternatives

4. Evaluate the consequences of each alternative

5. Choose the best alternative and act on it

6. Evaluate the results

The Decision Making Process WS

The Management Process

Manage – direct, control or administer

Management process – four steps: setting a goal, making a plan that includes the use of resource, carrying out the plan, and evaluating.

Used to make decisions both big and small

The Management Process

Step 1 – Setting a Goal Setting a goal to use to make a decision based on your values or

ideas about what is important

Step 2 – Making a Plan Think through and list the steps you will need to accomplish to

make the event a success

Step 3 – Carrying out the Plan Most exciting part

Your plan is tested, and your dreams may or may not become reality

Step 4 – Evaluating Assess the degree of success in meeting your goal