Decision Making Training: Build Skills to Make Better Decisions

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

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

LSA exceeded all my expectations.

We interviewed 7 potential training and consulting partners and selected LSA due to their expertise, flexibility, and breadth and depth of leadership solutions.

We were able to design a highly customized, focused, and relevant management training program that fit our unique needs.

Our leaders and managers galvanized as a team and are better prepared for the rigors of a leading their teams in a very competitive and fast-changing market.

Mitch Mandich
CEO

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 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

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

Thank you to LSA Global for their partnership and support in helping us to design and roll-out highly needed and valuable leadership and management development programs that fit our unique situation.

I personally have partnered with LSA Global at four of my previous companies. It continues to be a delight.

We look forward to partnering with them for a long time to develop our managers and leaders.

Suzanne Kinner
VP Human Resources

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

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

At the onset of our engagement with LSA, I was skeptical that an outside firm would be able to understand and dissect our organization’s highly complex and technical business challenges.

However, through the leadership team interview and strategy retreat processes that LSA utilized, they provided a fresh, innovative, and practical perspective that created tremendous strategic value and focus for our executive leadership team.

As a result, I would highly recommend LSA Global to any leader struggling with building the strategic alignment and high performance teams necessary to generate sales growth, in a way that fits their unique corporate culture.

Robert Laudati
Managing Director

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

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 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

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!”

David Fiano
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!

Dr. Raphael B. Merriman M.D
Medical Director, Liver Transplantation

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

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.