Planning and Decision Making Essentials

Planning and Decision Making is designed to help participants understand and apply a range of management processes and concepts required for making decisions in any organisation. On this course you will be given the tools to analyze the relationship between decision-making and leadership. You will learn how to plan rationally and finalize decisions which will help your company improve. Outstanding leaders make decisions by smartly balancing their intuition and rationality. Our course covers both theoretical and practical modules to scale and boost leadership among participants.

Objective

By the end of this interactive training programme, you will be able to:

• Enhance decision making both alone and in collaboration with others
• Use the toolkit to solve issues at the earliest and make effective decisions
• Plan quickly and strategise for excellent outcomes
• Avoid psychological pitfalls during decision making
• Balance intuition and rationality by improving your self-awareness
• Improve client satisfaction through better planning and decision making
• Build up interpersonal techniques in boosting team spirit and relationships

Course Outline

Module 1 - Introduction

• Purpose of the course, goals, and objectives
• Strategic decision-making
• Components of superior decision-making

Module 2 - Qualities of an effective Leader/Team Builder

• Planning and strategising in the middle of severe challenges
• Factors to consider while taking decisions at senior managerial levels, cross-functional,
  project teams

Module 3 - Comparative Study of Planning and Decision-Making

• Planning and decision-making
• Importance of decision-making
• Comparative Analysis of planning and decision-making with reference to Practical Case Studies
• Comparative study of decision-making vs. self-interest

Module 4 - Importance of Planning

• Identifying risks and avoiding loss
• Dynamics of decision-making
• Planning to integrate work structure, boost team morale and achieve goals
• Decision-making and immediate action during crises
• Setting priorities while planning
• Enhance communication to avoid taking bad decisions and adopt the habit of
  active listening
• Understand the effectiveness of quality planning and strategising accordingly

Module 5 - Practical

• Case Study - industry specific decisions taken by outstanding leaders
• Practice - Study and discuss best practice examples of planning and
  decision-making
• Team exercise - work as a team to balance priorities and decision-making
• Action planning