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10/13/2015 by Sean Brady

Why NY’s Grade 3 – 8 assessments are useless for tracking improvement

New York’s school districts must wait until the summer of 2019 to get an accurate assessment of the effectiveness of their ELA and math strategies.

Filed Under: NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: Common Core, implementation

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

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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

03/31/2014 by Sean Brady

Sketchy Andy and the nature of innovation

A great idea may fuel conversations or inform dreams. But the innovation requires disciple and action. Watch Sketchy Andy set the world record highline.

Filed Under: Creativity & problem solving Tagged With: creativity skills, idea generation, implementation, innovation, visionizing

02/19/2013 by Sean Brady

The critical importance of target setting

In a recent local appearance, Olympic gold medalist Shannon Miller touched on the critical importance of target setting: “Are you training for a 5K? Set your goals. Are you working toward a promotion? Set your goals. Battling cancer? Set your goals, see them through.” At Prism, we couldn’t agree more: goal setting must be a […]

Filed Under: K-12 education Tagged With: dropout, dropout prevention, dropout rate, education, graduation rate, implementation, target setting

01/09/2012 by Sean Brady

Personal transformation and New Year’s resolutions

This post describes seven strategies for maintaining your will power and achieving personal transformation – or at least your New Year’s resolution!

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

05/11/2011 by Sean Brady

Credit Union "Micro" Strategic Planning

Small- and medium-sized businesses often run micro retreats that compress strategic planning into a day or less. Too often, these retreats are poorly executed: there has been little preparation and the decision-making process is opaque. Alternatively, a successful micro retreat depends upon four key factors: a lean strategic planning process, preliminary research and detailed preparation, dynamic group process and skilled decision support, and strong, consensus agreement to act. This post uses a case study from the credit union sector to illustrate each of these factors and demonstrate how to run an effective strategic planning micro retreat.

Filed Under: Strategic planning Tagged With: assumptions, consensus, cost-benefit, decision-making, group decision support, group decision system, implementation, strategic planning

03/22/2011 by Sean Brady

Reduce stress! Become more creative in three steps

Reduce your stress! Discover three strategies to help you face life’s challenges with a creative worldview. See differently, tame your fear and build social networks based on familiarity and reputation. Learn to navigate life’s quick waters with greater dexterity and joy at https://prismdecision.com/become-more-creative-in-three-steps

Filed Under: Creativity & problem solving Tagged With: biases, consensus, creative problem solving, creativity skills, fear, idea generation, implementation, innovation, mental models, risk-taking, visionizing, visualization

04/12/2010 by Sean Brady

The Rashomon Effect

Have you ever walked out of a team meeting assuming alignment on a course of action only to discover later that there were conflicting versions of what was agreed to? “That’s not what I heard” becomes a common refrain. If you have, then you’ve witnessed the “Rashomon effect” named for Akira Kurosawa’s cinematic masterpiece, Rashomon, in which four individuals witness an horrific crime and then recount the story with absolute honesty but in four mutually contradictory ways. This post discusses two simple techniques for eliminating the hazards of the Rashomon effect on team decision making and agreement.

Filed Under: Consensus-building Tagged With: consensus, decision-making, implementation

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