Decision Making Strategies for Leaders

Decisive leaders stand out. But acquiring decision-making confidence requires sophisticated skills, knowledge and experience. If you could peer into the future, calculate knock-on effects and predict outcomes, making decisions would be easy. But in the fast-paced world of business you need to harness rare skills to manage risks and take others with you.

Whether you’re an executive in a major international firm or the leader of an SME, discover the vital ingredients common to all good decisions and realise your decision-making power. Decision Making Strategies for Leaders accelerates your experience and arms you with the confidence to tackle uncertainty head-on. You gain deep knowledge and the tools you need to make confident decisions and persuasively communicate them to various stakeholders.

Draw on world-class expertise across a range of disciplines to develop a profound understanding of what goes into smart decision-making. Gain insights from outstanding thought leaders David Faro, Niro Sivanathan and Victor DeMiguel. Take advantage of board-level experience with a session led by former Dean of LBS, Sir Andrew Likierman.

What you learn

• Analyse the decision-making process.
• Using methods to leverage collective intelligence effectively.
• Separating the data from the noise to make effective decisions.
• Presenting data in a way that builds stakeholders’ commitment to decisions.
• Understanding normative and behavioural approaches.
• Nudging other parties, including customers, to make better decisions.
• Understanding the psychological barriers that impede good decisions.
• Recognising and avoiding decision traps.
• Learn from past decisions.
• Using smart decision-making for competitive advantage.

How you learn

• Personalise your learning with a decision-making scenario unique to you and your business.
• Gain a balanced and blended approach in four critical areas: organisational behaviour, marketing, operations and accounting.
• Learn from world-class experts including Niro Sivanathan, David Faro and Victor DeMiguel.
• Take advantage of board-level experience with a session on judgement from Sir Andrew Likierman.
• Dynamically explore evidence-based theory and apply it to real-world pressures.
• Put crisis decision-making under the spotlight with a high-pressure interactive simulation.
• Receive instant feedback and review your learning outcomes with coaching during and after the programme.