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Decision-Making Style Inventory, Facilitator Guide
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Aug 2007, Pages: 128
This facilitator's guide offers everything that a training professional, consultant, career counselor or leadership development specialists will need to successfully administer the Decision Making Style Inventory. The guide includes the inventory's complete technical data--validation, correlation and reliability statistics; a section devoted to decision making theory; advice on creating action plans for developing style flexibility; and a sample of the Decision Making Inventory and associated participant's workbook The inventory is a 20-item Likert assessment that identifies an individual's decision making style preference. The assessment measures four dimensions. Two structural styles--Systematic and Spontaneous, and two processing styles--Internal and External.
The inventory takes 10-minutes to complete. Once the scores are plotted, individuals turn to the description of each style, where they'll find advice on when their preferred style is most and least effective, how to communicate successfully with other styles, and practical suggestions for developing style flexibility.
The Decision-Making Inventory Participants Workbook is used in conjunction with the DMSI. The Decision-Making Inventory is a validated and reliable 20-item assessment that identifies your preferred decision-making style on a two dimensional scaletwo structural stylesSystematic and Spontaneous, and two processing stylesInternal and External. The Systematic decision-maker prefers logical processes and seeks to analyze all parts in a problem. Spontaneous decision makers prefer thought-chaining and tend to focus on the whole, not the parts.
Author Info:
Bill Coscarelli is currently teaching full time at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in the department of Curriculum & Instruction. He is the university's former co-director of the Hewlett-Packard World Wide Test Development Center. Bill has been elected as president of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology's Division for Instructional Development, appointed as founding editor of Performance Improvement Quarterly, and as the President of the International Society for Performance Improvement. His consulting practice has been engaged by many of the world's leading companies including AT&T, Citibank, Dun and Bradstreet, Hewlett Packard, IBM, McDonald's, Microsoft and State Farm.
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