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Advanced Decision Making Skills

Techniques for making effective decisions that solve problems and lead people effectively

Who is it for?

All members of your team who want to improve their personal and organisational decision making and problem solving. The course provides proven models to help tackle tough challenges and help find the best courses of action.

What does it cover?

We make decisions every day, many of which will have an impact on our work performance. This course will hone decision making abilities by giving delegates efficient and clear decision making tools including the Ansoff and Pareto techniques. These models are applicable to all levels of problem complexity and are used extensively by major strategic decision makers world-wide.

What will delegates be able to do differently?

  • Feel empowered to make effective decisions and solve problems
  • Use techniques to improve creative thinking and methodologies to support both your decision making and problem solving
  • Apply logic and rationality to problems, considering all relevant variables and determining an optimum solution
  • Diagnose and use all information available including factors such as interpersonal and political information, performance and management information
  • Understand the way management and leadership style impacts decision making and problem solving

Programme overview

  • Determining your options and alternatives
  • Understanding diagnostic competence
  • The three initial questions: differentiating between important and trivial; urgent or not urgent; and comfortable or awkward
  • Ansoff’s Gap Analysis: where am I, where do I want to be, how do I get there?
  • Pareto Analysis: the 80/20 rule
    – identifying the major causes and greatest contributors
  • Multi stage modelling of outcomes: determining the question; generating options; selection and implementation
  • Decision making exercise and practice sessions
     
Duration and cost

1 day, £1,695 + VAT
Click on the following links for more details on costs and options, guarantees, discounts and our Skills Licence

Funding and bundle options

Part funding options are available on this course.
Bundle with Effective delegation skills for just £2,995

Follow on programmes

Effective delegation skills
The art of being brilliant
Leading through change
Persuasion & influence
Building brilliant teams

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Rapide Communications

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Hot Office Business Centres

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Relate

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Huntingdon Town Council

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Heart FM

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Elizabeth Murphy

AllClear Insurance

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Le Creuset

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MGM

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London College of Business

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Clarins UK

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Millward Designer Homes

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World Challenge

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Beales Hotel Group

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Redwood Telecoms

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Venners

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