Decision Making Training

Decision Making Training

Make Better Decisions by Design

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Decision Making Training: Build Better Leadership Decisions That Drive Results

“An extremely effective executive decision making training session that helped our executive team navigate through our core objectives. It was exactly what we needed.  The approach was practical and valuable for our specific business and market.

I would recommend LSA to anyone looking to push their decision making skills to the next level.”
Blake Krikorian | CEO | Sling Media

“We selected LSA Global over five other potential partners to help take our company’s decision making capabilities to the next level as we look to continue our growth trajectory. My leadership team was skeptical at first, but LSA’s ability to work with us at the strategic, cultural, and leadership levels exceeded our expectations.

I highly recommend LSA to any executive team looking to get aligned to grow faster.”
Amy Webber | CEO | Cambridge Investment Research

“I really like the toolkit, interactive breakouts, and the application! Exactly what we’ve envisioned. It’s something our team can apply in everyday work.

The team decision making training framing of the rationale and the urgency helps a lot. Thank you!”
Amy Sing | Head of Strategy Process and Governance | MilliporeSigma, a business of Merck 

“You are a phenomenal facilitator. The executive decision making training we worked through was so valuable for our team. I loved the concepts and appreciate how you navigated sensitive subjects and still allowed us to evaluate and appreciate new perspectives in an open way.  Thank you!”
Tracey Bertolina | CFO | CoachSource 

Decision Making Training Description

Executives and their teams face an avalanche of choices clamoring for action and attention. Good decisions are well defined, made efficiently, and communicated in a way that creates lasting commitment.

When organizations build better decision-making habits, they enable increased engagement, higher performance, and decisive actions.  Decisiveness starts with understanding the type of decision being made (e.g., strategic, operational, or tactical) and identifying who is best positioned to make and be involved in an agreed upon decision-making process.

This highly customized and experiential decision making workshop is a proven catalyst to:

  • Frame decisions to right-size the process based on complexity, stakes, and potential impact.
  • Create clarity in the decision-making process by defining what success looks like.
  • Build efficiency into the decision making process by involving the right people, at the right time, with a focus on what matters to the organization.
  • Drive commitment to the decision by owning the outcome through clear communication and measurement of results.

FAQ

Question #1: What is decision making training?      

Answer #1: Decision making training is a high customized, experiential, and action-based learning experience designed to help individuals and teams improve the way they make choices in complex, high-stakes, or fast-moving situations. It goes beyond intuition by teaching participants proven frameworks, tools, and habits that lead to clearer, faster, and higher-quality decisions.

Question #2: How does decision making training improve leadership effectiveness?

Answer #2: Decision making training improves leadership effectiveness by equipping leaders with the clarity, confidence, and consistency needed to guide teams through complex choices. Specifically, it strengthens leadership in the following ways: Enhances strategic thinking, improves decision quality, builds confidence and decisiveness, reduces bias and blind spots, strengthens communication and buy-in, increases accountability, develops agility under pressure, boosts team engagement and alignment.

Question #3: What skills are taught in decision making workshops?

Answer #3: Decision making workshops are designed to strengthen both the mindset and the skillset required to consistently make effective choices under pressure. While the exact skills taught vary depending on the audience and program design, the most effective workshops typically cover the following: Clarifying decisions and outcomes, applying a structured decision-making process, critical thinking and analysis, defining decision criteria and success metrics, bias awareness and avoidance, stakeholder engagement and alignment, risk identification and mitigation, communication and commitment to decisions, agility in decision making, real-time application of decision-making tools.

Decision Making Training Learning Objectives

This experiential customized decision making training program focuses on providing the knowledge, skills, and tools to consistently make high quality decisions.  In this highly interactive decision making workshop, participants review past decisions, move real work forward, make real-time decisions, and receive expert coaching and peer feedback.

The key objectives are to build better decision-making habits by learning how to:

  • Clarify the decision to be made and the desired outcomes.
  • Follow a consistent and flexible decision making process.
  • Define effective decision-making criteria and success metrics.
  • Unlock stakeholder and team commitment.
  • Act decisively and avoid common decision making traps and biases.
  • Identify and mitigate key risks.
  • Apply critical thinking to understand root causes and make informed decisions.
  • Communicate decisions for greater commitment and buy-in.

Benefits of Better Decision Making by Design

The more complex the decision and the higher the stakes, the more important it is make the right decision in the right way at the right pace.  When organizations apply thoughtful decision-making, it allows teams to cut through complexity and reduce what one client calls “organizational churn.”

Improved individual, team, and organizational decision making:

  • Creates shared accountability for decisions.
  • Removes complexity and inconsistency from decision making.
  • Reduces risks, unintended consequences, and the need to remake failed decisions.
  • Increases capability in managing and making decisions with multiple stakeholders.
  • Engages and inspires those who need to implement the decisions.
  • Improves the quality and speed of strategic and tactical decision making.

Target Audience

  • Executives who need strategic decision making training.
  • Team leaders seeking decision making skills workshops.
  • Organizations looking to reduce “decision churn.”

To speak with an LSA Expert and learn about live or virtual decision making training program customization, tools, coaching, certification, and delivery options, please contact us.

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As always, they design and deliver outstanding leadership development results and high quality management training programs that totally align with our unique business and talent strategies!

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