FEMA's EMI Independent Study Program online courses are provided by the EMI Learning Management System via the http://training.fema.gov/IS/ website. If you wish to complete Independent Study courses, you can do so through the EMI website. You will receive a certificate of completion upon successfully passing the course examination. You may request a transcript of completed courses by emailing the Independent Study Program Office at independent.study@dhs.gov.
Being able to make decisions and solve problems effectively is a necessary and vital part of the job for every emergency manager, planner, and responder. This course is designed to improve your decision-making skills. It addresses:
- How we make decisions.
- Group decision making.
- Crisis decision making.
- Ethical decision making.
At the end of this course, the participants will be able to:
- Describe the impact of effective decision making in an emergency.
- Identify attributes associated with an effective decision maker.
- Describe the steps of the analytical problem-solving model.
- Identify when group decision making is a good approach and methods for making a group’s decision-making process more effective.
- Identify impediments to effective decision making in a crisis.
- Describe strategies for enhancing crisis decision making.
- Explain how ethical considerations impact decision making.
