Who should attend & recommended skills
Mid-Senior Level – C-Suite Leadership Team:
This course is designed for mid-senior level and above business leaders with complex decision-making responsibility as it applies to their role within and organization.
C-Suite: Advanced (6+ years’ experience)
Complex decision-making responsibility: Advanced (6+years’ experience)
About this course
Wise judgment and effective decision-making have always been, and will always be, essential skills for leaders throughout all industry sectors. Today, leaders have access to massive amounts of information/data from a variety of sources. How can leaders leverage the abundance of information to make smarter decisions? How can leaders make confident decisions that will yield good outcomes? The key to effective decision-making lies in our ability to identify and analyze options, research them, and define the best-possible solution. Having a proven process to work through can take the challenge out of problem solving and make decisions easier. This half-day program features interactive learning experiences that help leaders improve decision analysis and leadership effectiveness.
Skills acquired & topics covered
Understand how biases and other obstacles in judgement can affect decisions
Apply problem-solving steps and tools, and avoid common decision-making mistakes
Analyze information to clearly describe problems and identify appropriate solutions
Think critically (and creatively) and be a contributing member of decision-making team
Incorporate structured decision-making techniques to enhance decision making
Create a plan for implementing, evaluating, and following up on decisions
Definitions
Making Decisions
Current State Assessment vs. Desired State
Problem Solving Model
Decision Making Tools
Analysis and Selection
Planning and Organizing
Action Plan