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Decision Making PURPOSE: The purpose of the decision making model is to help students better understand the decision making process and to apply these to later modules in this curriculum and in their activities as fire department members and officers. OBJECTIVE: Upon completion of this model, the student will: 1. Identify the three (3) limits on any decision and how some decisions are limited by more than one of the limits in 100% of the examples listed and in their own experiences. 2. Identify the four (4) levels of control of decisions and to identify these 100% of the time in the cited examples and to apply them to decisions that occur in their private lives and in their capacities as members and officers of a fire department. 3. Identify the five (5) methods of making decisions and to recognized these 100% of the time in the cited examples. To recognized those situations where more than one decision making method is occurring and which of these is the primary method 100% of the time in the cited examples. To identify at least 5 situations in their own personal life and in their fire department activities, where one or more of the decision making methods is occurring. 4. identify the steps in the decision making strategy model 100% of the time. To complete each of the exercises in each step of the decision making strategy model with 100% accuracy in the exercises cited. To apply each step of the decision making model to one decision in their personal life and four decision making situations at the fire department, with 100% accuracy. 5. Complete the module review exercises and sample with 100% accuracy by identifying the limits, control levels, methods, each step in the strategy model, effects on others and effects on other decisions. Procedure and General Information Content: Everybody makes decisions every day and many times each day. Some are small decisions, some are medium decisions, some are big decisions, and some are decisions we make without really thinking about it. Decisions are choices. You chose to wake up this morning, rather than roll back over. You chose to become a firefighter or EMS member. You chose to become an officer. These were all decisions. Yet most people don't know much about decision making. Just think about someone who did something really stupid and then ask them what made them decide to do this or that, say this or that, or act this way. They don't have a clue. You don't even have to ask anybody else to embarrass them, just think back to something foolish or inappropriate that you did and try to then think back and ask yourself "what in the hell was I thinking?", when you try to recall what made you decide to do something or not do something. As decisions are choices, without choices, there are no decisions. Yet there are always choices, so there's always decisions to be made. You could decide to do nothing (default), the decision is out of your control, or to ignore the decision made by another or superior/subordinate officer. We're going to really give serious attention to decision making in this VFD management course, because we're going to establish foundations and themes we will refer back to many times. We will look at decision making limits, control, methods and really break down decision making strategies into various components and levels. Please follow this outline, IN ORDER, as you complete this decision making learning module. Do not decide that you know all of this all already, because as you matriculate through this management course, you may find that the part you skipped would have made other later modules much easier to understand and complete. You might then find yourself having to start from the point you skipped and then go back over each module again. The Outline to follow here is:
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) Each of the above will have several exercises to follow that emphasize the elements discussed. You will find much care has been given (A DECISION was made) to use the examples and exercises being those things that happen in the management of a fire department, or something that relates to a decision at a fire, accident, or incident scene. From these examples, you may think of things that are not covered or should have further consideration, beyond what is being discussed and emphasized with that particular example. That's fine, in fact that's great . . . you have then demonstrated that you decided to use your brain, think and try to gain as much knowledge as you possibly can from your participation in this fire department management curriculum. Last modified: September 21, 2008
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