1. The Five Important Issues when Studying Decision Making*  (We need to be aware of the different approaches and viewpoints regarding Decision Making to extract value from literature for practical Decision Making)
2. Invisible influences on our Decision Making (We give attention to Expectations, Sense Making and the use and impact of Images amd Metaphors)
3. Decision Making, Authority Styles and Decision Making Risks (We give attention to Authority Styles, Decision Risk Estimation*, Decision Risk Propensity* and the Impact of Organizational Realities on Decision Risks)
   
4. How Decisions Happen (In this course we give attention mostly to rational decision making)
5. Understanding Organizational Decision Making (covered in accompanying ebook).
   

Aim of the course

Van Thinking offers online Courses and other Services and Products for Professionals in the Knowledge Economy.  We structure our products and Services to cater for the fact that many people who want to engage in life-long learning are very busy.  

Like all our email courses, its format is mainly directed reading, although it does provide limited facilities for interaction to discuss the material.  This particular course has as its aim to inform you about personal growth areas that you need to give attention to if you want to excel in decision making in the knowledge economy.  The focus is, as stated, on organizational decision making.  This particular course does not focus on group decision making and other group-oriented aspects of organizational decision making

Course Parameters

Price:  $36.95

The course is conducted as follows:

1. You are sent  an email each day with a link to that day's material (for 10 days).  Following this link will also provide you with the option to discuss the material on the discussion forum.
2. As part of the first session you also receive an ebook containing all the material of the course (giving this course the added value of providing you with an ebook covering the material).
3. After you have received the last session's link to the material you have continued access to the discussion forum (for up to a month after you first enrolled)

An Ebook ... and more

This email course can therefore also be viewed as purchasing an ebook and receiving support from Van Thinking to answer your questions as you read through it for the first time.  It will help you to cover the material in a consistent and structured way, and answer your questions during the process.

Why Pay for this Information? 

With so much information available for free on the web, why should you pay for this information?  Knowledge and information have become our biggest asset in the knowledge economy.  By restricting yourself only to what is freely available, you compete with hordes of others also having access to that free information.  Making the additional commitment to also know that which is not freely available to everybody else gives you the edge ...