Intelligent Decision Making
Course Prerequisites.
None.
Course Overview
Intelligent Decision-Making provides the insights and tools required by today’s executive facing a critical decision in a business or government environment. This 1-hour webinar describes the analytical process leading to an “intelligent choice”, including assessing the situation, stakeholders, risks, one’s self as a decision-maker, selling the decision, and the possible outcomes and required follow-up. Current logic has us believe that careful analysis leads to corporate objectives, followed by decisions and ultimately actions, but does that have anything to do with reality? Anyone who has spent some time in an organization knows that the order is often reversed: the analysis is biased to support pre-set objectives which justify a hastily made decision. If the outcome is satisfying, we call it a good decision. Or is it just luck? Any attempt to teach you how to make “good decisions” is a fraud. “Good” refers to the outcome, which always entails some unpredictability. Then, there is the question of “good for whom?” The decision-maker or one of the stakeholders at the expense of others? In this seminar you will acquire tools and techniques to improve your decision-making process such that you take into account more facets of the decision-making situation, set clear objectives, and make an intelligent choice between all possible alternatives.
Course Benefits
In your job you make all kinds of decisions. Only a few are critical or “strategic”. What are the signs of a critical decision? How will you recognize it before it’s too late? Follow the roadmap to intelligent decision-making. This course takes you through the process that will lead you to make a more enlightened or “intelligent” choice.
Who Should Attend
Executives, project managers, and any project team members who want to improve their decision making abilities and understand the process of establishing a strategic decision, gaining buy-in and following through.
Course Content
- Recognize a situation requiring a strategic decision
- Analyze the situation
- Identify the stakes and the stakeholders as well as their goals, fears, biases and relative power
- Establish a hierarchy of objectives
- Assess the risks
- Self-examine (what type of decision-maker are you?)
- Sell the decision to the pushers, the blockers, and the implementers
- Follow-up and execution
