Skills for Making Great Decisions
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Skills for Making Great Decisions
Learn how to make excellent everyday decisions from an experienced counselor and life coach. In this online course, you’ll learn about some wonderful abilities you’re born with for figuring things out and making good decisions. You’ll also see why your instincts and intuition sometimes deceive you and how self-knowledge can help you guard against becoming overly confident. You’ll discover the steps necessary to achieve your goals, as well as the power that ordinary, everyday decisions can have over the quality of your life.
You’ll learn how to deal effectively with a crisis, how to use your emotions as decision-making tools, and how to work with others to make good decisions. You’ll develop some important guidelines for when to take risks, when to trust your luck, and what to do if you make a mistake. The goal of this course is to give you the power to live the best life you can and make the very most of every opportunity.
Syllabus
- Lesson 1 – Born Decision Makers
- Lesson 2 – Needs, Wants, and Actions
- Lesson 3 – Achieving Personal Goals
- Lesson 4 – Making Everyday Decisions
- Lesson 5 – Dealing With Crisis
- Lesson 6 – Dealing With Emotions
- Lesson 7 – Making Decisions With Others
- Lesson 8 – Learning to Manage Risk
- Lesson 9 – Understanding Luck
- Lesson 10 – Recovering From Mistakes
- Lesson 11 – Changing Habits
- Lesson 12 – Decision-Making Tools and Resources
Requirements:
Hardware Requirements:
- This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac.
Software Requirements:
- PC: Windows 8 or later.
- Mac: macOS 10.6 or later.
- Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
- Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.
Other:
Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.
Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites to take this course.
Instructional Material Requirements:
The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.
<ul><li>6 Weeks Access</li>
<li>Course Code: dec</li>
<li>Start Dates* Jan 12 | Feb 09 | Mar 16 | Apr 13</li>
<li>$187.00 USD</li></ul><br><br>
<p><strong>Self-Paced</strong></p><br>
<ul><li>3 Months Access</li>
<li>Course Code: T9619</li>
<li>No Instructor, Start Anytime</li>
<li>$187.00 USD</li></ul>
Sonya Jodoin has been involved in social work and youth work for more than 25 years. She holds a diploma in Social Service Work, a degree in Social Development Systems (Social Policy), and numerous certifications in trauma assessment and treatment for children, youth, and adults; threat assessment for adolescents; risk assessment for adults; and compassion fatigue. She brings to the course both professional and personal experience in the field of adolescence, along with training in a multitude of treatment modalities, approaches, and therapies. She has worked on the front line in mental health settings with individuals and their families, primarily with teenagers. Ms. Jodoin has developed and implemented a specialized joint educational/mental health treatment program for children whose behavior has resulted in school expulsion, and was the creator of an evidence-based, specialized high school youth program for adolescents struggling with trauma.