Mastering Leadership Decision Making

**Decision Making** is a sophisticated and distinctly human skill that aims to guide organizations, teams, and individuals toward a more successful and productive future. Whether decisions are reached through a structured, logical process or through creative and imaginative methods, there is no doubt that decision making is a fundamental leadership competency. Decisive leaders distinguish themselves from others!

Although the ultimate responsibility for decisions lies with the leader, we live in an era that values debate, diverse opinions, and the concept of “collective wisdom.” Therefore, it is crucial for leaders to foster an environment that not only encourages contributions from all team members but also cultivates decision-making techniques that minimize bias and achieve successful results. Leaders are now seen as the “architects” of systems that support effective decision making.

This dynamic Anderson programme provides an in-depth exploration of the decision-making process, from diagnosing problems to designing solutions. It emphasizes the leader’s role as a “decision-making architect” while examining the psychological, cognitive, and emotional factors that can either enhance or hinder the decision-making process. Participants will gain a wide array of tools and techniques to build personal confidence, achieve productive organizational outcomes, and facilitate activities that promote engagement and drive innovation.

By attending this Anderson online training course, delegates will be able to:

• Enhance decision making practices using logical reasoning, critical thinking, and rigorous application of evaluative and analytical skills
• Understand the psychological principles underpinning the decision-making process and personalise them to real life situations grounded in their own organisations
• Explore radical approaches to decision making that balance emotion with logic and reason with intuition
• Demonstrate self-belief and interpersonal confidence in their decision-making activities that enhance their credibility in the leadership role
• Promote a culture of innovation and collaborative inquiry that recognises and utilises the creativity and collective wisdom within organisations

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 21^st century

• 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?

• 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”

• 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 

• 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?

• 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

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