High-Impact Leadership: Train Managers in the Art of Decision Making
High-Impact Leadership: Train Managers in the Art of Decision Making
Use a systematic process to make optimal decisions.
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Without a structured approach to decision making, organizations face:
A high decision failure rate.
Lack of stakeholder buy-in.
Bias, groupthink, and analysis paralysis.
By training managers to use a structured approach to decision making, organizations can:
Achieve greater decision-making success and significant business outcomes.
Avoid judgment traps and bias.
Drive overall decision consistency.
Module 1: Understand the Importance of Decision Making
The Purpose
Understand the importance of decision making and the value of optimization.
Key Benefits Achieved
Understand McLean & Company’s Decision Making Model.
Learn why strategic decision making will benefit your organization.
Activities:
Outputs:
1.1
360 degree review of strategic decision making
Decision making gaps based on 360 results
Understanding of the key process in strategic decision making
Module 2: Identify the Problem and Define Objectives
The Purpose
Problem identification to separate symptoms from underlying problems.
Key Benefits Achieved
Process to work through problem identification.
Activities:
Outputs:
2.1
Identify the problem
Symptom vs. problem identification and building objectives
Module 3: Establish Decision Criteria
The Purpose
Common methods and techniques for establishing decision criteria.
Key Benefits Achieved
Alternative evaluation methods.
Activities:
Outputs:
3.1
Alternative evaluation
Understanding and practicing evaluation methods
Module 4: Generate and Evaluate Alternatives
The Purpose
Understand the benefits of group decisions.
Use creative brainstorming.
Evaluate alternatives using decision criteria.
Understand bias and groupthink.
Key Benefits Achieved
Evaluate alternatives using decision criteria.
Activities:
Outputs:
4.1
Understand the power of group decisions, creative brainstorming, and decision criteria.
Ability to generate various alternatives and evaluate them
4.2
Types of judgment errors and biases
Understanding of eight common types
Module 5: Select an Alternative and Implement
The Purpose
Make the final decision and document the decision criteria.
Key Benefits Achieved
Documentation of the final decision.
Activities:
Outputs:
5.1
Decision-Making Case Study
Thorough understanding of the decision-making process through case study work
Module 6: Evaluate the Decision
The Purpose
Evaluate decision once it is implemented for lessons learned.
Key Benefits Achieved
Post-mortem on decisions will determine the value of the decision, as well as lessons learned.
Activities:
Outputs:
6.1
Individual Development Plan
Action plan for ongoing decision-making development
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