Working with Risk

Decision Traps and how to avoid them

60 minutes – $87 (inclusive of GST) per person (FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS)

Effective working with risk requires high-quality, collaborative decision making. In this short course we outline the common ways in which decision-making in mental health work is derailed by biases of various kinds. We then outline a practical method for enhancing the quality of your decision-making

You will learn:

• Why decision-making is central to working with risk
• How ‘Cognitive Traps’ can lead to poor decisions
• Why ‘what you see’ is NOT ‘all there is’
• The danger of seeking confirmation
• Biases that affect teams: Groupthink and Cognitive Dissonance
• A simple but powerful 5-Step framework for improving your decision-making