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07/21/2016 by Sean Brady

Visionize a preferred future

Feel trapped by the circumstances or challenges you face? Need to reinvent your life? Solve a persistent problem? Renew a relationship? Visionizing is a powerful thinking technique designed to elicit transformative strategies and actions. Visionize and create your future!

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: assumptions, biases, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, mental models, visionizing

05/06/2016 by Sean Brady

What Google learned about high performing teams

Google recently devoted considerable resources to determine what makes a high-performing team. What did they discover?

Filed Under: Consensus-building, Decision-making Tagged With: consensus, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, idea generation

03/17/2016 by Sean Brady

George Land & creating the future

George Land, a giant in the field of creativity, has passed away.

Filed Under: Creativity & problem solving Tagged With: creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, innovation

09/21/2015 by Sean Brady

Readings in Decision-making

Four books on decision-making that I consider ?must read.”

Filed Under: Readings Tagged With: assumptions, biases, decision criteria, decision-making, mental models

07/17/2015 by Sean Brady

How to select a college

In terms of financial investment, selecting a college is one of the more significant decisions a typical family will make. But many families are not equipped to make the decision well. This post offers a simple and concise step-by-step guide to help you navigate the college decision process confidently.

Filed Under: You Are What You Decide Tagged With: cost-benefit, decision criteria, decision-making, tradeoff

07/16/2015 by Sean Brady

The anchoring effect

The anchoring effect is an unconscious bias that can dramatically affect your outcome in any negotiation.

Filed Under: Biases & Fallacies Tagged With: biases, decision criteria, decision-making, negotiation

04/20/2015 by Sean Brady

Improving your leadership team’s decision-making

Decision-making is a key leadership skill. But leaders rarely if ever receive decision-making training. Prism now offers hands-on training in the Eight Keys to Better Decision-making.

Filed Under: You Are What You Decide Tagged With: assumptions, biases, cost-benefit, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision criteria, decision-making, idea generation, innovation, mental models, multiple criteria, risk-taking, tradeoff, visionizing

02/26/2015 by Sean Brady

Strategic planning has big payoff for school districts

School superintendents are faced with difficult resource allocation decisions. Where will I get the biggest bump in performance per dollar spent, they wonder. In this post are examples from four very different school districts. Impressive performance gains at each demonstrate why wise school superintendents invest in strategic planning as part of their continuous improvement efforts.

Filed Under: K-12 education Tagged With: decision-making, dropout, dropout rate, graduation rate

02/23/2015 by Sean Brady

Review of “Eight Keys to Better Decision-making”

“While books like Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow bring theoretical ideas to a mass audience … You Are What You Decide takes a big step towards real-world decision-making showing how anyone can improve their decision-making by adopting a few simple behaviors.”
– Andrew Tait, Chief Technology Officer, Decision Mechanics

Experience the power of the the Eight Keys today. Buy now!

Filed Under: You Are What You Decide Tagged With: assumptions, biases, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, idea generation, implementation, innovation, mental models, tradeoff, visionizing

01/20/2015 by Sean Brady

Strategic planning specifically for a BOCES

Have state and federal mandates drained the energy and passion from your BOCES? Is morale low? It doesn’t have to be that way. Reenergize your BOCES. Retake your future. Reengage, recharge and reinvest your faculty, staff and community. Articulate a new mission, vision and core beliefs. Set strategic targets. Articulate priorities, allocate resources, plan and execute.

Filed Under: K-12 education, Strategic planning Tagged With: Common Core, consensus, decision-making, Race to the Top, school accountability, visionizing

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