Target Audience: Decision analysts who want to improve their skills in facilitating group decision making processes and expert elicitation.
Overview: This course is designed for structured decision-making practitioners who want to develop their skills as decision analysts, particularly in the facilitation of the decision-making process and elicitation techniques. It builds on the fundamental principles of Structured Decision Making and focuses on facilitating the "PrOAC" steps of the PrOACT process. Course content includes eliciting problem framing and objectives; eliciting measurable attributes, alternatives, and subjective preferences; eliciting expert judgments; and decision process design and facilitation challenges. Sections on eliciting expert judgments include the setup and preparation phases, elicitation phase, methods and techniques of elicitation, and data analysis and documentation phases. The course is primarily experiential, mixing hands-on exercises with short lectures and group discussions.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: -Successfully set up and design a decision analysis process -Effectively facilitate decision makers and small groups using the "PrOAC" steps of the PrOACT process: problem framing, objectives, alternatives, and consequences -Elicit personal values or preferences -Conduct value scoring for consequences -Elicit expert judgments -Process and use expert judgments in structured decision making Recognize some typical challenges with facilitation and group dynamics and when help is needed -Work toward competency as an independent decision analyst.
Competencies: Decision Making - Intermediate, Decision Support - Intermediate, Strategic Thinking - Intermediate, Stakeholder Management - Basic, Creativity and Innovation - Basic
Registration Information: Registration for this course is in DOI Talent.
DOI Employees can register here: Decision Analysis: Elicitation and Facilitation
Non DOI Employees: Contact Emily_Hooper@ios.doi.gov
Payment Information: Please do not pay for this course until you receive confirmation of your enrollment from the course contact.
Tuition: $950.00