MM FEB UI’s General Lecture: Decision Making and Problem Solving
Nino Eka Putra ~ FEB UI Public Relations Officer
DEPOK – (4/9/2020) The Master’s Degree Program in Management, FEB UI, held an online general lecture that took “grow your career” as its theme. The lecture, entitled “Decision Making as a Leader,” featured Grandhis Helmi Harumansyah, MBA, Group Head Commercial Risk 1 PT Bank Mandiri (Persero), Tbk, as speaker and was moderated by Melia Retno Astrini, M.Sc., lecturer at the Department of Management, FEB UI, Friday (4/9/2020).
Grandhis said the Covid-19 pandemic that is affecting our lives has global impacts and huge risk potentials and no one knows when it will end. The banking industry has also been significantly affected, as operating costs surge, profit potentials are under pressure, interest income decreases, loan growth slows, non-performing loans (NPL) and collectability go up, liquidity demand increases.
All of these are problems we must identify to make decisions and come up with solutions, followed by monitoring. In general, problems come in three forms, namely current problems, future problems, and potential problems that can be anticipated.
Other important factors in defining a problem invlove reframing problems, proposing and challenging asumptions, use of facts, building ideas, putting perspectives into practice, changing problems into positive things and finding solutions.
Decision making is an integral part of modern, essential, rational and good management. “A leader is expected to play a role in making a decision based on facts, knowledge, experience, analysis, and research,” said Grandhis.
Grandhis added that basically, to make good decision, we need to focus on important matters, avoid making a decision until we are really ready, seek positive outcome, weigh the negative output, and look to the future (see if your decision is still relevant as time passes, change big decisions into small decisions, avoid getting stuck in just one or two alternatives, make sure you get the right output that suits your need to ensure a sense of security).
“Decision making is based on problem identification (identifying the apparent problem, finding and analyzing the roots of the problem, identifying the real problem), decision making (identifying the alternative solutions, choosing the best solutions), planning and organization (action plan and implementation),” said Grandhis. (hjtp)
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