Here Professor Laurence Allison MBE, Director of the National Unit for Critical Incident Decision Making at the University of Liverpool and leader of the University’s Psychological Resource Network provides a range of tools for decision making during critical incidents and uncertain situations.
Part One - Introduction to Decision Making in Crisis Management
Professor Laurence Allison MBE introduces us to the idea of decision inertia and people's failure to act giving examples of disastrous events in history and how delays in decision-making happened and how this situation can be addressed as part of crisis management. This session is part of a series of bite-sized resources that looks at various strategies to support leadership, decision making, resilience and communication during the Ukrainian conflict.
Part Two- Avoiding Decision Inertia When Decision Making
Professor Laurence Allison MBE looks at what experts do to avoid decision inertia, the realities of decision inertia and people's failure to act. Here we look at some of the tools they utilise from a range of studies from the military for example, how hey develop a set of stories to explain what they are dealing with in the face of uncertainty and critical situations.
Part Three - Accelerating Expertise in Decision Making
Here Professor Laurence Allison MBE shows us to how to accelerate expertise to assist your decision-making processes, to make us less prone to error, more able to move forward and work together better as a team and critically to avoid decision inertia and failure to act in the face of uncertainty and critical situations.
Further information
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