COMM311 Real-World Connections: Episode 12, Who Decides?

Narrator: Real-World Connections. Episode 12: Who Decides?

Narrator: The pilot's halfway done. Durban's working, thanks to the health workers' changes. Monterrey isn't. Amara has to decide whether to change the plan, and after the viral video, her confidence is low.

Amara: I'll just decide and tell everyone. Fast and clean.

Lucía: Please don't. The Monterrey families told my team why they aren't using the kits. If you decide without them, we'll fix the wrong thing.

Priya: The data shows where it's slow. It can't show why.

Narrator: Your reading describes four leadership styles: directive, participative, supportive, and achievement-oriented. It connects them to power distance, since expectations about who decides differ across cultures. And it offers group techniques like brainstorming, discussion before decision making, and the Six Thinking Hats.

Narrator: The course's video on cultural intelligence adds four parts: drive, knowledge, strategy, and action. It calls drive the foundation. When your drive is low, the other three can carry you.

Amara: My drive's low. But I know more than I did six months ago.

Narrator: Which leadership style fits this moment and this team? Which decision-making technique should Amara use? And how can she lead well on a day when her confidence isn't there?