Here, you will learn about five potentially hazardous attitudes affecting judgment on projects and how to understand these attitudes as they apply to your decision-making. You will subsequently learn ways to limit your own potentially hazardous attitudes and to reduce the effects of high stress.
As a first step, you are now to take a self-assessment inventory to give you a personal insight for the following discussions and training. This information is only for your own use. It is not intended to be shared with your instructor or anyone else, unless you choose to do so.
This assessment asks you to decide why you might have made certain decisions. Ten situations will be presented, each involving a development or project decision. After each situation, you will find a list of five possible reasons for a decision. No "correct" answer is provided for any of the 10 situations. You may indeed be correct in believing that a prudent individual would not choose any of the five alternatives. Be assured that most people know better than to act as described in the situations. Just recognize that the inventory presents extreme cases of incorrect decision making to help introduce you to the five special types of hazardous attitudes described later.
Please answer all 10 situation-based questions, as I need all your answers to build up a reliable feedback for you.
Instructions:
- Read over each of the situations and the five choices. Decide which one is the MOST LIKELY reason why you might make the choice that is described. Place a numeral 1 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
- Continue by placing a numeral 2 by the next most probable reason, and so on, until you have filled in all five blanks with ratings of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
- Do all situations and fill in each blank, even though you may disagree with the choices listed. Remember, there are no correct answers.