The critical skills taught in this book will help you find working solutions for complicated problems, determine how much risk is acceptable in a situation, learn a process for moving from decision to action, and handle risk with more awareness, skill, and confidence. Decision making always involves some level of risk. Learning the necessary skills to assess and minimize the uncertainty can remove some of the possible damage and fear involved in taking risks. This book presents an array of techniques to analyze and deal with risk, using checklists, exercises, and questionnaires to help you understand your own comfort levels with risk and how you can approach it with greater confidence.
Table of Contents Understanding Risk Taking
Overview
Guiding Principles Part 1: Exploration
Step 1: Clarify Objectives and Values
Step 2: Identify and Evaluate Alternatives
Step 3: Assess Your Risk-Taking Tendencies Part 2: Planning and Preparation
Step 4: Choose a Change Strategy
Step 5: Choose a Decision-Making Strategy
Step 6: Improve Reward/Risk Ratio Part 3: Implementation, Follow-Up, and Learning
Step 7: Overcome the Barriers to Appropriate Risk Taking
Step 8: Take Action, Evaluate Outcomes, and Follow Up Part 4: Summary Review
Other Resources Objectives Choose which risks to pursue, and which to abandon or modify Learn strategies for successful risk taking that support constructive change Assess risk-taking situations to improve gains, minimize losses, and reduce uncertainty Understand his or her own risk-taking tendencies, patterns, or risk preference, avoidance, or neutrality
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