Using The Creative Decision Making Model To Choose Conestoga College

Identification of the Problem

The decision-making process in any scenario is essential. It is for this reason that a model comes in place to help one to make the right decisions. When it came to choosing Conestoga College, I used the Creative Decision Making Model. The model enabled me to come up with the best decision, and the decision was to join Conestoga College. The Creative Decision Making Model has different stages which are essential and which are helpful. Each of the stages was relevant and essential to my decision-making process. The first stage was the identification of the problem. In this case, I identified that there was a need for me to have another course on top of the current course which is related to medical studies.

Education is termed essential in society. Without education, one is faced by different challenges that are likely to deter the dreams of a person and make the life of the person harder and this is why this emerged to be a problem. It is this perception that motivated me to pursue an education in the first place (Janeiro & Patel, 2015). However, when it came to joining Conestoga College, there are other factors that influenced my decision. My name is Tanya, and I am from India. Conestoga College is not the first educational institution that I have attended, and the current course that I am taking is a new profession to me. However, I must admit that the process of identifying this problem was not an easy one.

After identifying the problem, it was a high time to make sure that I go to the next stage of decision making which was the immersion stage. In this stage, I had to collect information about the problem. In the process of gathering the information, I had to make sure that the information is in line with my needs. The first piece of information was associated with the location where the College is. The piece of information was crucial because the problem was not only to acquire skills in another course but the nation host was also supposed to come in handy.

Conestoga College is in Canada, and Canada has been the nation that I have admired to live in apart from my home nation. Considering my interest in Canada, it was essential for me to make sure that I get to know more about the country and what it had to offer to my problem. Canada is one of the nations that are well known in the world because of the way the nation extends its hands to people from different nations (Bernardino, 2017). Currently, Canada is one of the nations that are giving educated immigrants opportunities to restructure their lives and earn from Canadian organizations.

Collecting Information to Solve the Problem

The learning environment is essential in any learning process, and this is one of the reasons why I collected information about the learning environment in Canada. It would not be wise to choose a nation that has the best schools, but the atmosphere in the nation does not motivate the foreigners (Heyler, Armenakis, Walker, & Collier, 2016). As a foreigner, I needed a nation where I would feel safe. I also gathered information about the learning programs. It is essential to note that I needed the best solution to the problem.

This means that I needed to acquire skills from one of the best programs from the host nation. Canada is a country that has many organizations that deal with management and other related tasks, and that means that most of the learning institutions are equipped to produce some of the best business managers in the country. Therefore, gathering information about the programs in Canada was the best move to make at that particular time.

The second reason why I am at Conestoga College is because of my passion for running and managing a business. Regardless of where a person reaches in terms of success, there will always be a room for new beginnings. It is for this reason that I believe that it is essential to have several professions at a time with the aim of making sure that one is equipped with all the knowledge that is needed to be a professional (Romiszowski, 2016).

There are different reasons why I have always loved to practice management, and all the reasons were factored in during the decision making process. The first reason is that with the technical skills in the medical field, acquiring the management skills will help me to be a professional who can take care of the patients and at the same time manage my business effectively (Snyder & Diesing, 2015). The second reason why I love management skills is that I believe in changing things. I am the type of a person who does not like seeing things get out of hand and do nothing. I believe that change is inevitable and any area that needs change must be changed. To make sure that it does not stress me to see people failing to implement change in different areas; I chose to have the management skills so that I can implement change instead of complaining and wait for people to make changes.

Solution to the Problem

The reputation of an institution is enough to attract or repel students, and this is why this information was essential to my decision-making process. When the reputation is good, the institution has the highest chances to attract as many students as possible (Shepherd & Rudd, 2014). However, when the reputation of the institution is negative, it is more likely that only a few students would want to be associated with the institution (Garg, 2017). I also had to look for information associated with the learning atmosphere.

A learning institution that takes care of the students from different backgrounds is in the best position to foster a healthy learning environment. An institution that discriminates some of the students is not likely to have students from different parts of the world who seek education, and this is because it does not have all it takes to accommodate the students (Bals, Kirchoff, & Foerstl, 2016). The other type of information that I looked for was associated with the resources. The learning resources in any institution must be present and relevant to the courses that are provided.

In the third stage, I forgot about the problem of acquiring a different course. This was the time for reflection and the time to know if the brain is working on the problem unconsciously. This stage would come to usher in a different stage known as illumination. It is at this stage that I was clear on the solution to my problem.

The solution was dictated by the information that I had gathered about my problem. I knew that I needed a nation that was safe and a nation that would not discriminate me as a foreigner. I also knew that the learning institution that I had to choose had to be competitive and had to have all resources essential for promoting a better learning environment. Conestoga fitted perfectly to be the solution (Janeiro & Patel, 2015). The reason behind it was because the college had all the requirements needed to solve my problem.

The last stage in this model is verification, and this was the stage of making the final decision. At this stage, I had already gone through my problem and the information about Conestoga. I found out that Conestoga was the best solution to my problem. As a result, I made sure to take the step of applying for the course. The final stage that finally solved my problem was the stage of officially booking my position as one of the students at Conestoga College (Janeiro & Patel, 2015). The creative decision-making model proved to be of help to me when choosing Conestoga College.

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