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Module 3: Determining Your Direction

Direct Your Future. Module 3: Determining Your Direction. Module 3. Objectives At the end of this module, you will be able to: Describe different kinds of decision-making strategies. State the steps of a planful model of decision making.

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Module 3: Determining Your Direction

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  1. Direct Your Future Module 3: Determining Your Direction

  2. Module 3 Objectives At the end of this module, you will be able to: • Describe different kinds of decision-making strategies. • State the steps of a planful model of decision making. • Apply the planful model to your personal career decision making. 3-2 Direct Your Future

  3. Module 3 Definitions • Decision– selection of one alternative rather than another. • Alternative– different ways in which a problem may be solved, or a goal reached. • Goal – an event, condition, or outcome that we set for some future date. • Consequences – results, or outcomes, of making a decision. • Valuing – a process of examining alternatives. 3-3 Direct Your Future

  4. Module 3 Basic Principles • The outcomes of some decisions are more important than others. • When outcomes are important, use the Planful Decision-Making Model. • Using the Planful Decision-Making Model does not assure the outcomes you want, but increases your probability. 3-4 Direct Your Future

  5. Module 3 The Planful Decision-Making Model Step 1: Identify the decision to be made. Step 2: Consider characteristics of self. Step 3: Identify alternatives. Step 4: Collect information about each alternative. Step 5: Put alternatives in priority order. Step 6: Take action. Step 7: Review the decision and possible outcomes. 3-5 Direct Your Future

  6. Module 3 Other Decision-Making Approaches • Painful – spending a lot of time and energy finding alternatives and information, but not making a choice. • Impulsive – jumping to a choice without finding alternatives and information. • Compliant – making the choice that someone else wants you to make. • Delaying – putting off making a choice. 3-6 Direct Your Future

  7. Module 3 Homework for Next Session • Write a one-or two-page description of yourself from three different perspectives or viewpoints: • How your parent(s)/guardians see you. • How your friends see you. • How your teachers see you. • Using Activity 7: Connecting Life Roles, interview one of your parents or another adult about different life roles they play. You should complete the worksheet and bring it to the next session. 3-7 Direct Your Future

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