Announcement
17th International Naturalistic Decision Making Conference
The 17th International Naturalistic Decision Making conference will be held July 1-5th, 2024 in Auckland, New Zealand!
News and Updates
decision making
Insights
OODA Versus RPD: Reconciling Models of Cognition and Conflict
John Schmitt provides a comprehensive beak down of the overlap and distinct differences between Boyd's OODA model of conflict and Klein's RPD model of cognitive decision making, and describes the contexts in which they are best suited.
Insights
Situational Judgement Tests vs. ShadowBox: Surface similarities mask essential differences
Have you ever wondered how ShadowBox's scenario-based training method differs from other training and evaluation approaches? In this week's featured insight, Gary Klein compares and contrasts ShadowBox training to Situational Judgment Tests, highlighting key distinctions that put ShadowBox in a league of its own.
Scenario of the Month
Decisions for Patrol Officers
This month, we introduce a type of ShadowBox exercise we call ShadowBox Lite (SBXL), which is an abbreviated scenario with minimal set-up and only one decision point. The idea is to distill the decision down to its essence. Here we offer six SBXLs from law enforcement.
Insights
The Three-E Triangle – Training Tradeoffs
Reza Jalaeian discusses common challenges instructional designers face when creating effective, efficient, and engaging instruction and how the ShadowBox method can aid in attaining all three.
Insights
The Next Frontier for Naturalistic Decision Making: A Call to Action
John Schmitt suggests a new frontier for applying NDM principles and provides a landscape of current NDM tools that may be relevant to this emerging area. We are actively seeking input from the community about tools for addressing wicked problems!
Insights
Focusing on the Problem – Part Two
John Schmitt shares his thoughts on formulating a complex problem -- continuing his series of essays on problem solving.
Insights
Focusing on the Problem – Part One
In Part One of John Schmitt's exploration of problem solving, he discusses the importance of adequately understanding a problem before coming up with a solution.
Scenario of the Month
SummitFest
This month's featured ShadowBox scenario is an abridged version of a scenario from our de-escalation course for law enforcement.
Podcast
The Thinking Leader Podcast featuring Gary Klein
Gary Klein and Bryce Hoffman discussed valuable decision making tools like the premortem, ShadowBox training, and the fundamentals of naturalistic decision making.