Decision Making Training

Decision Making Training

Make Better Decisions by Design

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Decision Making Training: Build Better Leadership Decisions & 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.

Customizable 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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After a difficult search to find a partner that could address a very specific leadership development need, we chose LSA Global. They were responsive to our needs and created a highly customized solution that we continue to see results from. It is nice to know we have access to their expertise with a simple phone call.

Valerie Blackburn
Director of Business Operations

We contacted LSA to help us design and deliver customized management development programs. LSA worked with us to meet our exact needs. We started at the top with our executive team.  It was such a great success that we rolled it out company-wide. We look forward to a long-term partnership with LSA Global and their team of experts.

Barry L. Byrd, SPHR
Human Resources Manager

Having taken on a new executive leadership role, one of my first calls was to LSA Global to help my leadership team to design, implement, and cascade clear strategic plans.  First, LSA helped our leadership team identify the strategy, culture, and talent areas that mattered most to create organizational alignment.

Then they helped facilitate the design of a strategic growth plan that is clear, compelling, believable, and implementable. We now have 100% commitment from an aligned leadership team and key stakeholders going forward.

I would recommend LSA to anyone who wants to create high levels of strategic alignment, growth, and performance.

Erik Arvesen
Vice President, General Manager

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LSA’s approach has certainly brought value to Knight Ridder Digital. They were laser focused on our goal and determined to meet all of our Leadership development program needs. Their flexibility and commitment were keys in making our program successful.

Dipik Rai
Director of Marketing

At a time of change in our marketplace, LSA Global did an exceptional job helping our executive team create strategic clarity by helping us to define, clarify, and prioritize our corporate vision, mission, values, differentiation, target clients, strategic priorities, success metrics and key roles.

They beautifully navigated a very difficult and fuzzy situation, respectfully cleared out all of the cultural elephants, and shared impactful insights and leadership development theories along the way. They have transformed our business.

Laurie Sewell
President & CEO

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I’ve been associated with LSA for the last 8 years and have found them to be extremely professional and client-focused.

I’ve participated in a number of solutions ranging from Performance Management to Leadership Training.  I’ve found the quality to be superior.

They are always well prepared and have definitely done a considerable amount of pre-work in order to customize to our unique culture and goals.

Duane Schroeder
Human Resource Manager

Working on our HR Strategy was so eye opening.  I feel so much better prepared to be successful as a leader individually and collectively.

Now the entire HR leadership team can drive our growth strategy forward in a way that makes sense.

Kristin Talastas
Director, HR Shared Services

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It was a challenge to find a consultant with an approach to performance improvement that fit our unique performance culture and style. We were pleasantly surprised to discover LSA’s depth of expertise in the fields of motivation, developmental coaching, performance management, and measurement.

LSA seamlessly integrated those components without our folks feeling like the intervention was forced. They understood what we were trying to accomplish, helped us clarify our objectives, and created a solid, refreshing approach that quickly got us moving and engaged at all levels across the organization.

Overall, I couldn’t be happier that we found a true strategy and implementation partner in LSA.

Doug Hansen
President and Director

Redwood Trust

What a refreshing change from the half-baked psycho-babble you normally get from training and consulting organizations. LSA gives you the practical and results-oriented assistance you need to define and reach your goals.

Their leadership, management, and sales expertise has been invaluable.  They think strategically and provide a results driven plan – not just a temporary fix.

They are great to work with, and even more importantly, they “get it!”

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Director of Merchandising

The strategy and alignment work with our leadership team was absolutely transformational.  The decisions we made combined with the transparency, communication, and accountability were exactly what we needed.  Thank you!

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LSA helped us with leadership development by designing a solution to match our unique needs and culture.

It was a huge success. I would highly recommend LSA to help take leaders and managers to the next level.

Karen King, SPHR
Manager, Human Resources

Alliance Data

I continue to be impressed by the level of leadership development training and management expertise and quality of advice and facilitation that LSA has to offer.

What a smart and client-centric group of great people who really know how to help assess and develop high performing leaders.

Tracy Esposito
Director

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LSA is an excellent sales and leadership outsource partner! They listen to our needs, are responsive, and work at a pace that keeps up with our rapid speed.

We have found LSA to bring strategic, innovative, and practical solutions to meet our business priorities by partnering effectively with our key staff. I consider them to be an important external extension of our team.

Thank you!

Wendy Chinn
Sr. Director, Global Sales Enablement

We turned to LSA to help us custom design and deliver a action leadership and management development curriculum to help drive performance across the company.

They have done an excellent job diagnosing the business situation, designing an approach that fits our unique culture, and delivering first class solutions.  Thank you!

Sally Buchannan
VP Human Resources

We consider LSA Global the top outsourced learning and development partner.

We work closely with LSA to customize leadership and management development programs to meet our growing business needs.

I would highly recommend LSA to any company wanting to deliver high quality and practical learning solutions for their leaders and managers.

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Vice President Human Resources

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