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Advanced Decision Making

Make Better Decisions for Your Organisation

This course is available for teams and organisations.

We’ll tailor it to your goals and deliver it online, at your offices, or wherever works best.

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Overview

As humans, we make about 3 billion critical decisions a year. The success of your life, work and career relies on the quality of these decisions. 

Learning techniques can help you make more timely, well-considered and informed decisions, that will enable you, your team, project or organisation to perform better, quicker and more consistently, even when under pressure.

Our half-day Advanced Decision-Making course has been specifically designed to help you learn how to avoid decision-making paralysis, understand more effective decision-making processes and address complex issues.

Leave our masterclass with more effective decision-making techniques and the confidence to be a more decisive leader.

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand dual-processing models of human behaviour to highlight the role of the environment in shaping decisions

  • Apply behavioural science techniques to improve your decision-making

  • Learn how to avoid decision making paralysis

  • Frame the issue appropriately

  • Work through key steps to aid your decision-making process





All the ModernGov courses are Continuing Professional Development (CPD) certified, with signed certificates available upon request for event.

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Trainers for this Course

At ModernGov, we partner with experienced trainers who specialise in leadership and management skills within the public sector.

Based on your organisation’s goals and requirements, we match you with the right expert: someone who understands your context and can deliver a tailored course designed to strengthen your team’s leadership skills.

See trainers we regularly work with on this >

Stuart Riddington

Stuart Riddington
Business Development and Strategy Expert

Andy Cribbin
Leadership Coach


Agenda

09:00 - 09:10 Trainers Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives

09:10 - 10:00 Workshop: Theory – Science and Methodologies Behind Decision Making

  • Why do people struggle to make an effective decision?

  • Why do we need to make better decisions?

  • Understand the science behind decision making

  • Understand the role of behavioural science in decision-making

  • Meet the key principles of Organisational Decision Quality (ODQ)

10:00 - 11:00 Workshop: Framing the Problem/Opportunity

  • Identify the hidden traps in the framing stage of a strategic decision process

  • Learn how to appropriately frame the problem/opportunity you are facing

  • Gain insights on how to engage key stakeholders and foster constructive disagreement


11:00 - 11:15 Morning Break

11:15 - 12:00 Workshop: Avoid Decision Making Paralysis

  • Understand the reasons why we tend to miss relevant objectives when thinking about decisions

  • Expand your initial decision frame

  • Learn how to debias your and your team’s decisions and take ownership of them

12:00 - 13:00 Workshop: Decision Making in Action

In this interactive session, delegates will bring their own decision conundrums and will work in small groups to engage with Decision Analysis principles.

  • Learn how to frame complex issues

  • Practice making better decision-making processes

  • Gain the confidence to communicate your decisions more effectively

  • Receive expert feedback from our trainer

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