Successful Decision Making

Leaders today are faced with endless decisions that have great financial and business effect on the results organizations achieve.

Leaders today are faced with endless decisions that have great financial and business effect on the results organizations achieve. While many individuals use a structured approach to decision making, taking into account various factors and consequences, still more make decisions based on “gut feel”. Through a process-oriented decision-making system, leaders increase their chance of making the most appropriate decision for the business, as well as reducing the risk of poor decision making. In addition, this program assists managers in determining when others should be involved with decisions to be made and when to make them independently.

Consider this program if you know:

• Every decision is made by consensus, whether necessary or not.
• Decisions are made based on politics or financial implications or people implications alone.
• Once decisions are made, implementation is considered and often times “falls down.”
• Decisions are made without a clear link to business strategy or goals to be achieved.
• Individuals procrastinate before finally being forced by time pressures or others to make a decision.

Program Outcomes:

• Determine the appropriate situations to be autocratic or inclusive in decision making.
• Identify the outcomes desired of a decision before considering alternatives.
• Generating alternatives and options for solutions.
• Establish clear consequences – both positive and negative – and how they relate to the objectives to be achieved by a decision.
• Use a structured decision-making time and achieve a better outcome.
• Create a solid implementation plan for decisions made.