Transcript Unit Four Learning Objectives

Phi Theta Kappa Leadership
Development Studies
Unit 7
Making Decisions
Reflect ~ Focus
The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Decision Making
• Why is learning and reflection about decision making so
important?
NOT Deciding creates a bigger
problem:
To organize a response in a
Profound Crisis:
To choose better strategies or
paths:
To strategize, rather than react:
Personal Decision Making
• Insights from literature:
– The Road Not Taken
– Robert Frost
– Huckleberry Finn
– Mark Twain
– Small Group Presentation:
• Shooting An Elephant
– George Orwell
“It is with the heart that one sees rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Group Decision Making
• Emphasize Inquiry, not Advocacy
• Encourage cognitive, rather than affective
conflict
• Pay attention to perceived fairness and
inclusiveness
• Look for the presence of: multiple alternatives
(creativity), assumption testing, dissent and
debate, listening
» David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto
» “What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions”
Test Your Creativity
Test Your Creativity
• Unscramble each set of letters to make a
word that uses all the letters:
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MEST
OTOR
DUB
STKAL
LFAE
LTEPA
Now, try a new list:
FINEK
PUC
SDIH
OPONS
KROF
LTEPA
SOLUTION
STEM
ROOT
BUD
STALK
LEAF
PETAL
KNIFE
DISH
FORK
CUP
SPOON
PLATE OR PETAL
Test Your Creativity
• Sporty BMW vanity tag/license plate:
SNOBDR
Insights on Decision Making
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Personal decisions:
Decisions about/for others:
Group decision making:
Importance of creativity:
Importance of time:
Small Group Assignment
This evening, create a short skit (5 – 10
minutes) to answer a question about the
conflict in the Iliad excerpt.
The small groups will perform the skits in the
morning.
Iliad Questions
• What motivates Agamemnon?
Iliad Questions
• What does Achilles really want?
Iliad Questions
• Why does Agamemnon fail to resolve his
rift with Achilles?
• How might he have successfully resolved
their differences?
• Have you ever been so personally
involved in a conflict that you had to be
right, despite the consequences?