Course Overview

Successful completion of this course will increase your knowledge and ability to:

• Access your decision making style.
• Define clear parameters of your decision.
• Collect relevant information and generate creative alternatives.
• Hone your intuition and incorporate it as you make decisions.
• Define consequences and payoffs.
• Analyze risks and define your level of risk tolerance.
• Avoid common mistakes and psychological traps in the decision making process.
• Correlate the appropriate strategy with the specific decision.
• Describe the dynamics of group decision making.
• Develop clear guidelines on communicating your decisions.
• Design an action plan to evaluate the results of decisions. Tailor your decision making style to be situationally appropriate.

Duration

6 Hours. Training times can be arranged in more manageable sessions of 3 hours over 2 days.

Delivery Method

Training times can be arranged according to your date and times requirements, delivered virtually or on-site at your premises by one of our professional facilitators. Alternatively, you can join a virtual public course by clicking on the Register Now button.

Who Should Attend

This course is recommended for human resources, business leaders, senior executives, managers, supervisors, and front-line workers.

Prerequisites

This course is designed for the student who has little or no experience.

Course Content

1. Assessing Your Decision Making Style

• Objectives
• Assessing your decision making style
• Decision making process and potential traps
• Choosing how to make decisions
• Interpreting results
• Making business decisions

2. Framing the Decision

• Objectives
• Identifying what you want to accomplish
• Writing a problem statement
• Using the components of decision frames
• Establishing objectives
• Examining the case study

3. Gathering Information

• Objectives
• Better information means better decisions
• Intuition in decision making process
• Examining solutions and options
• Passive decision making
• Imaginative alternatives
• Examining the case study

4. Analyzing the Information

• Objectives
• Analyzing consequences
• Using a consequence table
• Determining tradeoffs
• Determining risk tolerance
• Slippery slope syndrome
• Examining the case study

5. Why Bad Decisions Happen

• Objectives
• Avoiding common mistakes
• Avoiding mind snares
• Acknowledge pivot points
• Stress and decision making
• Learning to lean on experts
• Examining the case study

6. Making the Decision

• Objectives
• Deciding how to decide
• The meta decision
• Democratic decision-making techniques
• Using the consensus decision making
• Collective participative decision making
• Using the autocrat decision making
• Avoiding bad decision making styles
• Communicating the decision
• Communicating with intent
• Examining the case study

7. Auditing the Results of Decision Making

• Objectives
• Reviewing the decision
• Carrying out a decision review
• Examining the case study

The Secret to Success

Short courses are an easy and effective way to upskill your people. This enables them to apply their new knowledge in your workplace immediately.