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Problem Solving & Decision Taking for Research Students

Course Description

What is the quality of your problem solving? How long does it take you to make a decision? On this 1-day course, taught by external consultant Judith Krichefski, you will experience and gain useful tools and techniques for improving your approach to problem solving and decision taking.

You will find these skills invaluable whilst carrying out your research project and approaching the postgraduate employment market. In particular you will gain the confidence and skills to try new ways to solve problems and take both short and long-term decisions. This will help you to deal with maintaining momentum, keeping focus and delivering outcomes. These techniques will be of enormous value in both your student and work life.

The overall objectives of this one-day course are to –

• Enable you confidently to meet deadlines
• Ensure the direction of your research delivers a unique outcome
• Experience a variety of creative thinking tools and techniques
• Become more familiar with prioritising techniques
• Develop ways of maintaining focus and being clear about each stage of your research project
• Increase your motivation and enthusiasm to overcome new challenges in a research environment
• Demonstrate new ways of managing the expectations of a range of stakeholders
• Exceed your own expectations

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Course Recommended for

This course is particularly relevant to the following groups:

• 1st Year Research Students
• 2nd Year Research Students
• 3rd Year Research Students

Course Organisers

• Course Tutor - Ms Judith Krichefski - (External Institution)
  
• Administrator - Ms Kasia Bronk - (Graduate School)

Further Web Resources

• Free Management Library - Problem Solving: http://www.managementhelp.org/prsn_prd/prob_slv.htm

Further Reading

• Ceserani, Jonne (2003), The Problem Solving Pocketbook, Management Pocketbooks
• Freeth, Peter (2003), Six Questions: A Practical Handbook for Creative Problem Solving, Communications In Action
• Russell-Jones, Neil, The Decision-making Pocketbook, Management Pocketbooks

Term 1 2012/13

Term 1 2012/13

Description:	This full day workshop takes place in Lecture Theatre B.09, 66-72 Gower Street, UCL.
Points:	2
Places Available:	4
Sessions:	9:00am - 5:00pm on Tue 13 Nov 2012 Graduate School Training Suite, Lecture Room (B.09), 66-72 Gower Street, UCL, London, WC1E 6EA
Preparatory Work:

 

Term 2 2012/13

Term 2 2012/13

Description:	This full day workshop takes place in Lecture Theatre B.09, 66-72 Gower Street, UCL.
Points:	2
Places Available:	3
Sessions:	9:00am - 5:00pm on Tue 12 Feb 2013 Graduate School Training Suite, Lecture Room (B.09), 66-72 Gower Street, UCL, London, WC1E 6EA
Preparatory Work:

 

Term 3 2012/13

Term 3 2012/13

Description:	This full day workshop takes place in Lecture Theatre B.09, 66-72 Gower Street, UCL.
Points:	2
Places Available:	5
Sessions:	9:00am - 5:00pm on Mon 29 Apr 2013 Graduate School Training Suite, Lecture Room (B.09), 66-72 Gower Street, UCL, London, WC1E 6EA
Preparatory Work: