Decision Making Training: Build Better Decisions That Drive Results

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

Despite the need to make better decisions faster, research from the Global Association of Applied Behavioural Scientists found:

85% of mid- to senior- level professionals have never received training in decision-making.
45% do not have a structured and agreed upon way to make decisions.

That creates unnecessary risk and performance drag. 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.

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.

Decision Making Training for Leaders and Teams

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.

Related Information

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

LSA’s executive coach based his approach on understanding our business circumstances and strategy, as well as our leadership aspirations. The customized coaching covered all aspects of leadership; it was not simply a touchy-feely endeavor.

In fact, the focus on clear business outcomes and real life circumstances challenged me as a senior leader to develop my thinking and actions related to leading the business.”

Janet Pagano
Managing Director

Having tripled in size and recently merged, LSA helped our executive team to increase our level of strategic alignment, to solidify our new direction, and to push our agency forward.

As we look to rapidly scale, the clear, actionable, and critical few strategic moves combined with how we differentiate ourselves to our top accounts and target clients has really set us on a great path to success.

This is exactly what we needed to get to the next level. Thank you LSA!

Matt Britton
CEO

LSA’s approach and ability to bring the right leadership and management expertise and approach to eBay has been a great asset.

They really focus on helping us succeed in any way they can and definitely lifted up our leadership and management development capabilities.

Mike Normant
Learning & Development

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 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.

Terri Wright-Scheer
Vice President Human Resources

Over the years, both at 3Com and now at Redback, I’ve found LSA Global to be a valuable partner. The recent management programs that they delivered for Redback’s executive and management teams was the right solution, of the highest of quality, and customized to fit our unique business and culture. I would highly recommend LSA to any company looking for top quality solutions.

Gina Fulton
Vice President of Human Resources

LSA worked with our Executive Leadership Team to help create strategic clarity and alignment as we look to increase our growth rate and unlock innovation. They masterfully handled very complex, challenging, and high stakes leaders, decisions, and cultural nuances to help us identify what matters most and move toward one unified direction.

Their practical, straightforward, and client-centric approach to strategy was refreshing. I highly recommend them to any executive team looking to get aligned to create even higher performance. They are lights out awesome!

Patrick Resk
Chief Financial Officer, Partner

We selected LSA Global over 5 other companies to help our key executives improve their overall communication and executive presentation capabilities. LSA exceeded our expectations.

I highly recommend LSA to any executive team looking to better organize and more effectively deliver key executive-level messages — especially when the stakes are high.

Todd Power
Office of the CEO

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

Your team was amazing. Facilitative Leadership was one of the best leadership and change workshops my team has ever attended. Thank you!

Diane White
Executive Director, Head of Product Development

LSA has been a tremendous asset at my current company and my past company.

As an HR leader, I am always looking for ways to find external resources that can provide impactful leadership and management development expertise. LSA consistently does that for me.

The tools and practices are crisp, business relevant, and easy to apply on the job.

Ken Boehm
VP of Human Resources

We partnered with LSA Global to help us invest in our people. LSA custom designed an impactful management curriculum to help upskill our key managers and leaders.

We consider LSA to be our trusted learning and development partner and a valued extension of our team as we rapidly scale. Thank you LSA!

Lisa Bruun
SVP Human Resources

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

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

FAQs

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.

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.

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 is especially valuable for executives, managers, project leaders, and cross-functional teams facing complex, fast-moving, or high-stakes decisions. It is particularly effective for organizations navigating growth, transformation, innovation, market uncertainty, or competing stakeholder priorities where alignment and clarity directly impact business performance.

LSA Global’s decision making training is highly customized, experiential, and designed around real business challenges rather than generic theory. Participants work through actual decisions, receive coaching and peer feedback, and apply proven frameworks directly to their business context. The focus is not just on learning concepts or clarifying decision rights and roles, but on improving measurable business outcomes such as decision quality, execution speed, stakeholder alignment, and organizational performance.