Strategic Decision Making
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$2,390 + tax (5%)
Course Start Date
2 days
2 days
Strategic Decision Making
Empower yourself to make smart choices
Every day as a manager, you’re asked to make choices—yet many managers report that making decisions is one of their biggest professional challenges. Fortunately, making better strategic decisions is a skill that can be learned through practice and mastery of key tools and perspectives.
In this workshop, you will explore the elements of effective strategic decision making and practical solutions for overcoming common decision-making challenges. Expand your vision of what’s possible. Identify the most strategically important dimensions on which to ground your decisions. Apply proven techniques for finding the best options in the face of complexity, uncertainty and conflicting objectives. Increase your confidence as a skilled leader who makes smart decisions that benefit the organization and its people.
- Analyze the problems you wish to resolve, and link decision-making issues to strategic goals
- Articulate your organizational strategy to ensure your team keeps moving in the right strategic direction
- Perceive your environment from multiple angles to discover strategic options and predict consequences
- Develop an advanced strategic decision-making toolkit
- Avoid unconscious biases and traps that lead to false reasoning and unfavorable outcomes
- Make decisions involving multiple goals and stakeholders
- Take your career to the next level by becoming a more effective strategic leader
Impact on your organization, team or business:
- Equip your leadership team to make better strategic decisions
- Improve the efficiency and quality of team decision making, without sacrificing consensus
- Optimize your use of limited resources
- Understand uncertainty facing the organization, and gain tools to manage it
- Build a culture of efficient decision making
- Ensure your organization can compete in a rapidly changing world
Putting the “Strategy” into Strategic Decision Making
- Exploration of differing strategic perspectives within the field of Strategic Management
- Strategy, vision and values-based decision making
- Translating competitive strategy into day-to-day decisions
- Managing differing objectives and information
Frameworks for Improving Decision Making
- Characterizing risk and uncertainty; using tools to manage uncertainty
- Decision-making frameworks and techniques
- Quantifying goals and identifying alternatives
- Multi-goal decision making
Decision Biases and Traps
- Cognitive processes in decision making
- Intuition vs. analysis
- Identifying your own decision style and guarding against biases
- Group decision making and group decision traps
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Dr. Steven Minns
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Evan Lloyd
Client Development Specialist, Professional GrowthWhat other professionals think
This course opened my mind to the multiple moral and business values that influence strategy every day. By harnessing the power in that value frame, we can guide and align decisions throughout the organization.
This course teaches skills that can be applied immediately on the job. Learning not only from top-notch educators, but also from peers from various backgrounds, enhances the experience.