Insights focused
Ensure robust, reliable decisions by learning to use evidence and insights in your decision-making process.
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You’ll learn how to:
- make evidence-based decisions
- ask the right type of questions
- determine the quality and relevance of evidence.
About this course
Course length: Four and a half hours
Delivery: Online, self-directed
Suitable for: All people professionals, at all stages.
Topics covered
- how to ask the right questions
- acquiring evidence
- appraising the evidence
- aggregating ideas
- applying ideas and assessing results.
What to expect from this ‘insights focused’ course
The course is aligned with The Profession Map's eight core behaviours. Learn more about these behaviours here.
You’ll explore your role in developing insights and then focus on creating solutions based on these insights. You’ll learn how to ask the right questions, determine the quality and relevance of evidence and identify the cause of a situation so you can make evidence-based decisions.
What you’ll need to do on this course
This course has six lessons, which you can access online at a time that suits you. You can work through the lessons at your own pace and in the order you choose. Each lesson is 30-45 minutes long and includes reflective and community activities to help you embed your learning.
What you’ll get on this course
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Learning outcomes
By the end of this ‘insights focused’ course, you’ll be able to:
- take a disciplined and open-minded approach to understanding and defining organisational issues and their root causes
- acquire multiple sources of evidence to test assumptions and ideas
- analyse and evaluate evidence to create insight and identify sources of bias
- develop and improve the quality of ideas and proposals
- review evidence and ideas to identify themes and connections and gain insight into the issue and its broader implications.
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