With rising business complexity, an overabundance of data, and relentless pace of change, making sound and timely decisions has become exceptionally hard. Yet without sharp individual and team decision making capabilities, organizations fracture as direction lessness and delays allow competitors to outmaneuver them.
Fortunately, nimble decision making is a skillset that can be developed through dedicated training.
The Perils of Poor Decisions
Common decision making pitfalls include:
- Superficial Framing – Leaders classify situations based on surface traits without considering underlying structures so responses prove inadequate.
- Biased Evaluating – Pre-existing preferences, recent experiences and groupthink heavily shape interpretation of options rather than objective analysis.
- Data Paralysis – Endless compiling of statistics halts forward momentum as decision makers seek impossible certainty before committing.
- Regressive Resolving – Under pressure, teams default to status quo or past solutions even when contexts evolved requiring new approaches.
- Fragmented Execution – Lack of alignment around evaluation criteria and implementation responsibilities slows adoption across silos.
Without retraining, poor decisions devastate organizations:
- 63% of major initiatives flop due to inadequate scoping of decision contexts and option impacts
- Only 19% of leaders exhibit consistent reflective practices to examine personal judgment blind spots
- Less than 25% of team decisions adequately incorporate diverse perspectives during framing processes
- 29% of critical business decisions in complex domains need revisiting within months due to unforeseen consequences
- 42% of employees complain about role confusion stemming from fragmented decisions
Strengthening decision rigor pays dividends across financial statements, culture indexes and customer satisfaction.
Now Any Team Can Decide With Confidence
The Art of Decisive Decision Making program equips leaders to:
What Program Graduates Are Saying
“Learning advanced facilitation techniques allowed me to quickly build alignment across stakeholders on evaluation criteria before assessing any alternatives.”
“We implemented a robust options tracking process enabling continuous scanning for solutions to emergent needs long before reactive decisions are required.”
“I can now size-up decision contexts rapidly to determine optimal resolution paths ranging from unilateral edicts to democratic consensus.”
Comprehensive Decision Making Curriculum
Through an intensive experience-driven curriculum, participants build know-how across:
Pre-Deliberation Preparedness
- Probabilistic Thinking – Make decisions factoring uncertainty, risk tolerances and untested assumptions.
- Criteria Audits – Evaluate past decision platforms against success metrics to guide future frameworks.
- Options Inventorying – Continuously curate community wisdom, new research and predictive models to enrich choice viability.
Inclusive Framing
- Stakeholder Map – Determine degree of impact and influence across constituencies related to decisions.
- Empathy Interviews – Gather insider perspectives from those experiencing issues most acutely.
- Integrative Complexity – Recognize interdependencies and tensions between values like speed vs. deliberation.
Creative Divergence
- Alternatives Generation – Develop wide option set by blending old solutions with new possibilities before assessing feasibility.
- Critical Inquiry – Pressure test by playing devil’s advocate across decision dimensions like ethics, economics and adaptability.
- Scenario Planning – Estimate probabilistic outcomes accounting for nonlinear chain reactions.
Decidedness Convergence
- Selection Criteria – Establish principled evaluation guidelines anchored to priorities like safety, sustainability and pragmatism.
- Comparative Analysis – Judge options systematically against standards based on research not just intuition.
- Risk Management – Monitor leading indicators to activate contingency measures that minimize damage.
Committed Execution
- Alignment Rituals – Foster shared resolve through clarity of assigned supporting activities and collective declarations.
- Timeboxed Reviews – Enable mid-flight course corrections at 30/60/90 day milestones analyzing progress against KPIs.
- Accountability Systems – Maintain responsibilities through balanced combinations of self and peer oversight.
The capstone simulation consolidates learnings by requiring swift mobilization of the full decision making methodology to address an escalating organizational crisis scenario.
Enroll now to advance your individual and team decision making mastery!