Explore how effective decision-making can influence business operations.
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Making decisions
This course will help you understand some of the processes involved in decision making. After completing the course you should:
- have greater insight into decision-making processes
- be able to use that insight to make more effective decisions
- possess a range of different perspectives on what counts as an ‘effective’ decision
- be better equipped to understand and influence the decision-making processes of other individuals and groups
- understand better how people perceive and decide about risk.
Level: Level 3 - Advanced
Duration: 4 hours
Using data to aid organisational change
This course explores how to use data to inform change within your organisational context. It looks at the type of evidence you can gather to inform your proposed change, and how to evaluate data with a view to using it as part of this transformation. Specifically, you will learn about internal and external sources of secondary information and how to evaluate them. You will also examine how to negotiate access to different types of information in a work context. Finally, you will obtain hands-on experience in collecting and using secondary sources of information in the context of researching and making this organisational change.
Level: Level 2 - Intermediate
Duration: 10 hours
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Fairer Scotland Duty
The Fairer Scotland Duty places a legal responsibility on particular public bodies in Scotland to actively consider how they can reduce inequalities of outcome, caused by socio-economic disadvantage, when making strategic decisions.
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Tackling Violence Against Women
Coordinating the National Violence Against Women Network to help councils and their partners to improve outcomes for women, children and young people affected by violence.
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Adopting a Trauma-informed Approach
Support for local authorities and stakeholders to raise awareness of the benefits of, and capacity to implement, a trauma-informed approach across systems, services and the workforce.
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The importance of good data for public sector leadership
A series of videos exploring the role and importance of good data for public sector improvement.