Assignment task:
Step 1: Just like with NFL quarterbacks, when supervisors make mistakes "on the playing field," by Monday morning everyone has second guessed their decisions. Even when following a logical decision-making process, or appropriate decision-making style, things can go horribly wrong-maybe even questions of "bribing the refs"!
Step 2: Locate information on creative ways to make decisions and solve problems. Use one of the workplace problems from this lesson's discussion and imagine that the results are ALL DISASTROUS. Identify all the things that could have gone wrong, and did. Then, be creative, suggest alternative solutions, and follow the decisions to different outcomes.
Step 3: Address the following:
- The workplace disaster scenario (problem) -
- A brief explanation of the creative problem-solving techniques you researched. -
- Suggestions for applying those techniques in creative ways to solve the problems and possibly achieve different outcomes.