Life Skills

Problem solving      It is said that, in life people get 90 percent opportunities and face 10 percent of problems and difficulties. The opportunities are neglected and only the problems are concentrated. The researchers suggest that the goal has to be concentrated primarily rather than a problem itself.      The Gestalt psychologist Karl Duncker defined a problem as, "A problem arises when a living creature has a goal but does not know how this goal is to be reached. Whenever one cannot go from the given situation to the desired situation simply by action, then there has to be recourse to thinking. Such thinking has the task of devising some action, which may mediate between the existing and desired situations".  Credence life skill tools. Motivating Potentials...       Some of the problems solving techniques are discussed below.  Brainstorming : (especially among groups of people) suggesting a large number of solutions or ideas and combining a

     'Once you make a decision, the universe conspires (Unites) to make it happen'. This is said by Ralph Waldo Emerson. When we look at the above words it gives an immense force to do things. Nevertheless, we have to do the major home work for the universe, i.e. Decision making itself.   The decision making is one of the toughest tasks to do. The decision making requires various skills such as probability, forecasting, history study, analysis and briefing.  The best and productive way to do decision making is as a team. In a team there is an opportunity to get broad ideas on pros and cons of a concept, whereas, as an individual decision maker we have to deal with our self-thoughts.  As in today’s world the opportunities and the tasks to perform are very broad, so team is emphasized as an option everywhere.   Credence life skill tools. Motivating potentials...   A researcher Pam Brown, breaks the decision making process into below 7 steps:   1.