Managing the Crisis to Make Key Decisions: An Impact of Online Learning During the Pandemic

Abstract

The Inability to Make Key Decisions: Why It Happens and Its Consequences is a crucial crisis… because it can severely impact people, organizations, and society. Therefore, the inability to make essential decisions can be considered a crisis. When important decisions are made slowly and ineffectively, missed opportunities, greater risk, and even failure can occur. Making important decisions might have severe repercussions. It can result in lost opportunities, career losses, and personal discontent for people. It can lead to lower productivity, missed goals, lost money, and even enterprise insolvency. It can affect society negatively, including social unrest, economic downturn, and political instability. Educational delivery may cause instruction to be chaotic, resources to be insufficient, and teacher and student morale to suffer. Teachers and administrators need to gain the ability to make decisions to deal with this situation. Professional development courses and workshops can enhance decision-making abilities and guarantee that educational institutions provide high-quality instruction that satisfies the needs of their stakeholders and students. During Covid-19, online learning was a big decision many liked, and many others did not. It lacked effort by students yet still provided learning for them. A model that I will use to explain or suggest a solution is the Eisenhower Matrix, which is a tool for prioritizing decisions and tasks according to their urgency and significance. According to Krogurus and Tschappeler, “With the Eisenhower method, you will learn to distinguish between what is important and what is urgent” (pg 10). This means that making decisions entails categorizing them into four groups: important and urgent, urgent but not essential, urgent but not urgent, and neither important nor urgent. This concept can assist people and organizations in determining which decisions need to be made immediately and which can wait. This will help manage the crisis by breaking it into sections of importance and getting things done accordingly.