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Difficult Decisions 1 – Navigating Between Decision Traps and Dilemmas

In recent decades, behavioral science has radically transformed our understanding of human decision-making. Modern leadership education cannot be effective without preparing leaders to understand human behavior beyond the rational dimensions and to navigate in difficult decision situations. Leaders need competence to reconcile the ‘mind and heart’s arguments’ and avoid the decision pitfalls arising from human dynamics. During this course, you will have and introduction and gain important insights into this new field of knowledge and get familiar with the practical instruments it developed. You will also receive guidelines for practice developing effective decision-making processes.

Take this course, if you want to move beyond the myth that adults make rational decisions. You want to understand why experts, leaders and companies make gravely mistaken decisions in high-stakes situations. You want to learn methods that help you to make better decisions in difficult situations, either individually or collectively with representatives of various perspectives and interests.

Description

This course offers you:

  • a deeper understanding of how people make decisions.
  • make you familiar with the most crucial decision traps and typical human errors.
  • support to treat both your rational and emotional intelligence with humility.
  • models how to make better decisions in challenging situations.
  • methods to structure the analysis and decision-making process in multi-stakeholder, complex decision situations.

 

You develop the following competences of yours:

  • Identifying the risks and traps in decision situations and processes.
  • Planning decision processes involving data collection, analysis, deliberation, and decision phases.
  • Applying testing and control methods for personal and group decision processes.

 

We recommend this course to:

Everyone who wants to make decisions with greater confidence. We offer the course for especially for leaders whose responsibility includes designing analytical and decision-making processes that reduce the risk of decision traps is essential and build commitment of staff for implementation the decisions.

 

Main topics:

  • Dilemmas – thoughts, reactions, solutions.
  • Biases, traps, and noise in decision situations – how they happen and how to overcome them.
  • What is essential for making good decisions in difficult situations?
  • Designing effective individual and multi-stakeholder decision processes.

 

Take this course if :

You want to move beyond the myth that adults make rational decisions. You want to understand why experts, leaders and companies make gravely mistaken decisions in high-stakes situations. You want to learn methods that help you to make better decisions in difficult situations, either individually or collectively with representatives of various perspectives and interests.

Methodology:

Dilemmas, cases, examples, stories, and engaging dialogue. Analysis of individual and organizational experiences in decision-making situations, decision practice exercises, and connected mini-presentations introducing new tools.

Parameters

Time:Ideally, 1.5 in-person days, but it can be a 1-day event and also conducted online.
Participants:senior management, hr managers and staff, midlevel managers, staff members, compliance manager and staff
Suggested venue:company premises or external venue
Előadó(k):Pallai Katalin
Ár:according to specific price offer