Critical Thinking & Decision-Making
Strengthen Decision-Making to Improve Performance
Timely, effective decisions fuel individual and team high performance.
We help individuals and teams strengthen decision-making by teaching discussion and evaluation processes that eliminate or mitigate personal and group biases and pressures.
Beware the Traps!
- Most individual and group decision-making processes are marked by traps and pitfalls introduced by cognitive biases or various social and cultural factors.
- Agendas, egos, politics, personality factors, prior experiences, wording choices, data smog, power influences and so many other socialization factors all complicate and sometimes doom our ability to make quality decisions.
- Today’s temporary project and virtual (distributed) teams add additional complexity to decision-making.
Executive Designed & Delivered to Help You and Your Team Improve Decision Development Performance Immediately!
- Increase awareness and understanding of the critical decision-making traps that commonly derail individuals and teams.
- Learn practical strategies to identify and minimize impact of decision-making traps.
- Gain experience with tools and discussion approaches that support improved framing, better use of data better organized and focused group discussions.
- Learn approaches for moving from idea generation to decision-development.
- Discover ideas and tools to measure, monitor and improve decision-making effectiveness.
- Build skills through hands-on case work. Depending upon program length, we apply the tools to a current decision-issue from your workplace.
Our Program is for You If:
- You are an individual contributor seeking to improve your own decision-making strength.
- You are leading a team (project manager, product manager, team leads) and are striving to cultivate a culture of high performance.
- You are part of a management team responsible for evaluating strategic choices and key investments.
Format:
- Individual education and coaching
- Team education/training and coaching
- Combined Live Facilitation and Teaching (we work on a critical issue and introduce tools and practices as we facilitate)
- On-going support via our on-line tools
All formats are highly interactive with pre-program work and post-program development assignments.
How to Schedule:
Our training and coaching programs are tailored for your individual or team needs. Please drop us a note to discuss your needs.