2025 SDP Conference Workshop
From Professional to Personal: Practical Tools for Decision-Making at Home
This workshop is intended for: Any professional seeking to improve the quality and impact of their personal decisions. It’s designed particularly for those navigating the complexities of supporting family, friends, colleagues, and community.
Instructor: Amy Day (Clarity4Action.org)
Abstract: Decision professionals excel in structured, data-driven environments where expertise in decision-making is highly valued. However, when it comes to personal life—where emotions, relationships, and subjective factors come into play—the same approaches can feel less effective. This workshop offers easy-to-use tools and frameworks specifically designed to address the unique challenges faced when applying your decision-making skills to personal, interpersonal, and family contexts.
This transformative workshop designed to bridge the gap between professional decision-making excellence and personal life challenges. It targets the unique difficulties professionals face when their analytical skills meet the complex, emotional, and often unpredictable world of personal decisions.
Participants will leave this workshop equipped with practical tools and frameworks to transform their decision-making from professional settings to personal environments, ensuring decisions are not only effective but also enrich their family and community lives. Takeaways include:
Equipping participants with tools to handle the emotional dimensions of personal decisions without compromising decision quality. Developing skills to clearly and effectively communicate decision principles to non-professionals. Receiving strategies to make quick, yet high-quality decisions amidst the chaos of personal life and defining and negotiating roles and responsibilities in personal settings. Learning to recognize and improve Decision Fitness – understand biases and gain insights into how emotional states impact decisions – to become more effective at personal decision-making.