1. Decision Making Skills & Problem-Solving Skills
Decisions are part of the process we use to solve problems.

2. How to make a tough decision - Full House Style!

3. THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS
Identify the decision to be made
Gather and examine information
Identify possible alternatives/choices
Evaluate the consequences of each alternative (pro & con list)
Choose the best alternative and act on it
Evaluate the results
Positive consequences = satisfaction
Negative consequences = learn from mistakes
Always take responsibility for your decisions

4. APPLY: Reflection
Describe two decisions that you or your family has made recently (one that turned out well and one that turned out poorly). Explain why you believe each decision turned out as it did.
Lastly, summarize how you or your family could use the decision making process for an upcoming decision.
Include the six steps.

5. Management Skills

6. MANAGEMENT SKILLS Goal Setting/Prioritize Identify Resources
Specific goals w/ time frame
Show accountability
Identify Resources
Aid in reaching goals, decision making, and problem solving
Examples?
Human, material, and community resources
Implement (Act)
Evaluate
Example?

7. Conflict-Resolution Skills
An approach to settling conflicts/
disagreements.

8. Rate Your Conflict-Resolution skills…

9. TYPES OF CONFLICT Situational Conflict Personality Differences
Certain circumstances create a conflict
Can occur in all kinds of relationships and in any part of daily life
Can’t control the situation, but CAN control how to handle the situation
Personality Differences
Differences in personalities and habits
Power Struggles
Power: the ability to influence another person
Issues are important to both sides/To get others to agree to your terms
Common parent/child conflict (e.g., curfew)
Need for Control (the action of directing another person’s behavior
When power is the cause of the conflict, the desire for control gets in the way of a solution.

10. V.O.M.P. V: VENT O: OWN M: MOCCASIN P: PLAN Get it out/express
Take responsibility
M: MOCCASIN
Put yourself in other person’s shoe (see their perspective)
P: PLAN
Put a plan in place so conflict doesn’t happen again

11. RESOLVING CONFLICTS Negotiate: to deal or bargain with another
EXAMPLE?
Compromise: giving in on some points of disagreement and having your way on others
Give & Take
Win-Win situation
Mediator: a person who leads those in conflict to solutions without taking sides

12. AVOIDING CONFLICT Don’t let others irritate you Focus on the positive
Change the subject
Be an UPSTANDER
Do what you know is RIGHT!
Walk way
Remember, sometimes the only thing you can CONTROL is how you HANDLE the conflict.

13. APPLY
When Vince and his brother John bought a car together, they agreed on how to share the costs of upkeep and use of the car. Now John isn’t filling the gas tank as agreed and he takes the car when it’s not his turn.
Using class concepts on conflict resolution, what should Vince do?