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Decision Making Best Practices

Master all decision making practices (quick, major, & strategic) of Fortune 500 firms taught by world-renowned expert

Disaster Avoidance Experts

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£12 inc VAT
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Online, On Demand What's this?
Duration
4.3 hours · Self-paced
Qualification
No formal qualification
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Overview

What are the 3 C's to decision making?

Clarify= Clearly identify the decision to be made or the problem to be solved. Consider=Think about the possible choices and what would happen for each choice. Think about the positive and negative consequences for each choice. Choose=Choose the best choice!

Want to learn to make better decisions taught by Fortune 500 leaders? This is the course for you.

This is what you can expect in this course: methods used successfully by leaders at the biggest companies to seize competitive advantage for their bottom lines and careers, thoroughly informed by cutting-edge research, and featured in top media venues and best-selling books around the globe.

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Reed courses certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included

Will be downloadable when all lectures have been completed

Curriculum

12
sections
22
lectures
4h 18m
total

Course media

Description

The course features 8 sections with videos, articles, and assignments from the course materials textbook packet, delivered in the following order:

Module 1: Introduction to the Course

  • Watch the introductory course video

Module 2: Wise Decision Maker Manifesto

  • Watch the video called "Wise Decision Maker Manifesto"
  • Then, read the Introduction and Chapter 1 of the best-selling book Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters, which is part of your course materials textbook packet. Do the exercises you find while going through that section of the book.

Module 3: Assessment on Dangerous Judgment Errors in the Workplace

  • Watch the video called "Assessment on Dangerous Judgment Errors in the Workplace"
  • Then, take the assessment, which you should have as part of your course textbook materials packet.
  • Score the assessment, evaluate your competencies and impact of the cognitive biases, and go through the process of deciding on next steps. If you are part of a team, encourage the team as a whole to take the assessment, discuss the results, and decide on next steps.

Module 4: How to Make the Best Quick Decisions

  • Watch the video called "How to Make the Best Quick Decisions"
  • Next, print out the decision aid for the "5 Questions" and put it in a prominent place by your computer. The decision aid is part of your course packet. The goal is to remind you to use these questions about any daily quick decision you don't want to screw up and need a good enough answer, the kind of decisions you make 2-5 times a day or even more, depending on your role.
  • Then, read Chapter 2 of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (as you know by now, it's in the course packet). Do the exercises you find while going through that section of the book.

Module 5: Making the Best Major Decisions

  • Watch the video called "Making the Best Major Decisions"
  • Then, get the manual for this topic from the course packet, and read through the manual.
  • Next, print out the decision aid for this method and put it in a prominent place by your computer.
  • Apply this process to a past major decision you made, and journal about what you might have done better if you applied this process. Apply this process to an upcoming or potential future decision and consider how you can make that decision better.
  • Finally, read Chapter 3 of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters, which is part of your course packet. Do the exercises you find while going through that section of the book.

Module 6: Making Complex Decisions Successfully

  • Watch the video called "Making Complex Decisions Successfully"
  • Then, get the manual for this topic from the course packet, and read through the manual.
  • Next, print out the decision aid for this method and put it in a prominent place by your computer.
  • Apply this process to a past complex decision you made, and journal about what you might have done better if you applied this process. Apply this process to an upcoming or potential future decision and consider how you can make that decision better.
  • Finally, read Chapter 4 of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters, which is part of your course packet. Do the exercises you find while going through that section of the book.

Module 7: Avoiding Failure & Maximizing Success in Implementing Major Decisions & Projects

  • Watch the video called "Avoiding Failure & Maximizing Success in Implementing Major Decisions"
  • Then, get the manual for this topic from the course packet, and read through the manual.
  • Next, print out the decision aid for this method and put it in a prominent place by your computer.
  • Apply this process to implementing a past major decision you made, and journal about what you might have done better if you applied this process. Apply this process to implementing an upcoming or potential future decision and consider how you can implement that decision better.
  • Finally, read Chapter 5 of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters, which is part of your course packet. Do the exercises you find while going through that section of the book.

Module 8: Future-Proof Your Strategic Decisions and Strategic Plans

  • Watch the video called “"Future-Proof Your Strategic Decisions and Strategic Plans"
  • Then, get the manual for this topic from the course packet, and read through the manual.
  • Next, print out the decision aid for this method and put it in a prominent place by your computer.
  • Apply this process to a strategy you pursued in the past, and journal about what you might have done better if you applied this process. Apply this process to your future strategy and consider how you can make that strategy better.
  • Finally, read Chapter 6 of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters, which is part of your course packet. Do the exercises you find while going through that section of the book.

Module 9: 12 Mental Skills to Defeat Cognitive Biases and Make the Best Decisions

  • Watch the video called “12 Mental Skills to Defeat Cognitive Biases and Make the Best Decisions"
  • Next, print out the decision aid for these mental skills and put it in a prominent place by your computer.
  • Then, for each mental skills, journal about how you might have done better if you applied it in the past. Next, journal how you can apply each of these mental skills in the future to do better.
  • Then, go through Chapter 7 of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters, which is part of your course packet. That's the assessment you took in the first section of this course. Re-evaluate the cognitive biases in your workplace with the deeper information you have gained in this course. For each one that you find to be over 30%, determine which one or several of the 12 mental skills from you can apply to address the problem.

Module 10: How to Deal With Irrational Colleagues in Denial

  • Watch the video called “How to Deal With Irrational Colleagues in Denial"
  • Next, print out the decision aid for this technique mental skills and put it in a prominent place by your computer.
  • Then, journal about a past situation with an irrational colleague in denial and how you might have done better if you applied this technique. Next, journal about a potential similar situation in the future and how you can do better by applying this technique.
  • Then, go through the Conclusion of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters, which is part of your course packet. Journal about your overall impressions and take-aways from this book.

Module 11: Next Steps for Course Mastery

  • Watch the video called “Course Congratulations Video”
  • Take some of my other courses on this platform
  • Please leave a course review with your feedback. It’s super-helpful for me to know whether the course is working well for you, or whether some improvements can be made.

Who is this course for?

  • Current and aspiring leaders (executives, managers, supervisors, intrapreneurs, and entrepreneurs) who want to dramatically improve all of their decision making (quick, major, and strategic) by using best practices from Fortune 500 leaders will get the most benefit from this course for their business and career goals, because case studies and examples are best suited to their needs
  • Everyone else who wants to make the best quick, major, and strategic decisions will also benefit from this course, even if the case studies and examples will be less relevant to them

Requirements

  • You need to trust best practices from Fortune 500 companies and behavioral science-based findings over outdated advice such as “go with your gut” in order to seize a competitive advantage in your quick, major, and strategic decision making for the sake of your bottom line and career

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