Mastering Decision Making for Project Managers

Portland State University
Professional Development Center
March 14, 2008

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Improve reasoning skills, learn to spot flawed arguments, and hone your business analysis techniques in this full-day seminar. Building from real-world examples and case studies, students learn formal rules of reasoning and how they relate to business decision- making. These skills are immediately applicable in decision-making environments.

How you will benefit:

1. » Improve communication and transparency in decision making through use of a common evaluative language.
2. » Know how to identify flawed arguments.
3. » Understand the wide applications: the rules of reasoning apply to virtually all decision-making environments.
4. » Have a deeper understanding of how -decisions are made and how to improve them.
5. » See how the rules of reasoning are implicit in nearly all statements.
6. » Be able to uncover the hidden assumptions in a decision statement.
7. » Work with experienced practitioners of logic on real-world problems.

What you will cover:

• » The value of logic in making business decisions
• » The basic structure of logic: premises, conclusion, standard form, etc.
• » Five common types of fallacies encountered in the workplace and how to address them
• » Real-world examples of common fallacies in action
• » Additional resources for learning more about logic and how it applies to business decision making

For more information and to register: Mastering Decision Making for Project Managers

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