Mastering Leadership Decision Making

An Intensive 5-day Training Course

Mastering Leadership Decision Making

Architecture for Optimising Organisational Performance

UPCOMING SESSIONS

Online sessions
DateVenueFee
18-22 May 2026Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT
29 Jun-03 Jul 2026Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT
21-25 Sep 2026Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT
16-20 Nov 2026Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT
25-29 Jan 2027Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT
17-21 May 2027Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT
28 Jun-02 Jul 2027Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT
20-24 Sep 2027Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT
15-19 Nov 2027Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT

Training Course Overview

Mastering Leadership Decision Making is an essential training course designed to empower leaders with the ability to make informed, confident, and effective decisions. Decision-making is a uniquely human skill, pivotal to guiding teams, organizations, and individuals toward success. Whether applying structured, analytical approaches or creative, intuitive methods, leaders who excel in decision making stand out and inspire confidence.

This training course emphasizes the leader’s role as a “decision architect,” shaping systems and environments that encourage collaboration, reduce bias, and drive optimal outcomes. Participants will explore the psychological, cognitive, and emotional factors influencing decision making, while gaining practical tools to enhance personal confidence and organizational performance. Through interactive exercises, case studies, and reflective practices, delegates will develop strategies to foster innovation, harness collective wisdom, and strengthen their leadership impact.

Training Course Objectives

This Mastering Leadership Decision Making Training Course is ideal for professionals seeking to enhance problem-solving, critical thinking, and leadership capabilities.

  • Leaders aiming to refine their decision-making strategies and improve organizational effectiveness.
  • Managers and team leads seeking creative techniques to address complex business challenges.
  • HR professionals and learning coordinators supporting leadership development initiatives.
  • Employees striving for tools to overcome workplace challenges and improve performance outcomes.
  • Technical professionals in engineering, production, or operations requiring structured decision frameworks.
  • New managers wanting to strengthen communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.

Designed for

This Anderson online training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals or anyone wishing to improve their problem solving and decision-making skills. It will have specific appeal to:

  • All professionals wishing to further develop their leadership, critical thinking and decision-making skills to enhance their career progression
  • Leadership professionals who wish to utilise creative techniques that offer insight into organisational concerns
  • HR professionals and training coordinators responsible for coaching managers and employees in performance changing techniques.
  • All employees who find themselves constantly seeking tools and techniques to assist them in meeting the challenging they currently face.
  • Technical professionals including those in Maintenance, Engineering & Production
  • Team leaders interested in further developing their management and facilitation skills to build collaborative practice and harness the richness of diverse thinking
  • Organisational leaders who make key business decisions and seek tools for guidance
  • Professional new to leadership/management roles and wishing to improve their communication, interpersonal, problem solving and decision-making skills
  • Leaders who seek to challenge the culture of their organisation and build the innovation necessary for the “enterprise culture” of the 21st century

Learning Methods

This course adopts a highly interactive and experiential approach to learning, ensuring participants apply leadership and decision-making concepts directly to their work environment.

Through a combination of group exercises, case studies, peer coaching, and reflective activities, delegates explore structured decision frameworks alongside creative problem-solving techniques. The course integrates psychological insights, emotional intelligence, and cognitive strategies to enhance judgment and reduce bias. Participants engage in collaborative dialogues, simulations, and scenario-based exercises to test and refine their decision-making capabilities.

By blending theory with practice, this training course enables leaders to diagnose organizational challenges, design effective solutions, and implement strategies that foster innovation, engagement, and sustainable results. Continuous feedback, reflective exercises, and action planning reinforce learning and promote long-term application in professional settings.

The Course Outline

Day One: The Leader as the “Decision Architect”. Psychological Insights
  • How Perception influences our understanding of leadership
  • Changing Paradigms of leadership thought
  • The “Decision Architect”, agile, responsive and decisive leadership
  • Personality, leadership style and decision-making activity
  • Systematic errors in decision making: thinking preferences and their implications
  • Decision making and problem solving: symbiotic twins: How elastic is my brain?
Day Two: Developing a Structured and Balanced Response to Decision Making
  • A systematic, mechanistic and structured approach to making decisions
  • Team exercise: collaboration, isolation and group thinking
  • Impacting variables: Ethics, Values, Bias, Spiral dynamics and Hubris
  • How well do I make decisions? Analysis, reflection and outcomes
  • IDEAL Problem Solving: Stage 1 in the decision-making process
  • Collective inquiry to ensure IDEAL outcomes: “making work groups smarter”
Day Three: Optimising Organisational Performance through Collaborative Dialogues, Strategic Tools and Committed Practice
  • Emotional Intelligence, collaborative practice and decision making
  • Understanding Team Dynamics: Equipping Your Team to Make Decisions
  • Diagnostic tools for organisational improvement Case study: Millennial Engagement
  • Daniel Kahneman: Nobel prize winning thoughts on decision making
  • Whole brain thinking: divergent and convergent thinking
  • Applied Practice: Assessing organisational concerns through a “zig zag” approach
Day Four: Building Creative Insights and Innovative Capability in the Organisation
  • How to make good decisions; peer coaching sessions
  • Appreciative Enquiry: accentuating the positive to eliminate the negative
  • Alternative forms of representation: soft system methodology for insightful change
  • Using Nature and multiple intelligences for creative outcomes
  • Assessing culture and organisational creativity; does it create the desired future
  • How creative am I? Adaptive and Innovative potential?
Day Five: Architectural Leadership: Vision, Inspiration and Momentum
  • Developing the critical mindset of the “Decision Architect”
  • Predicting the future: simple tools for organisational sustainability
  • Decision making in Leadership: a case study of Vision, Inspiration, Momentum
  • My VIM statements: strategic, organisational and personal
  • Beware the unpredictable black swan!
  • Review and action planning

The Certificate

  • Anderson e-Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the online course

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