Strategic Decision Making

Middle to senior-level leaders who are responsible for making complex decisions in their organizations.

• Analyze the problems you wish to resolve, and link decision-making issues to strategic goals
• Articulate your corporate strategy, to ensure your team keeps moving in the right strategic direction
• Make strategic decisions involving multiple goals and stakeholders
• Perceive your environment from multiple angles to discover strategic options and predict consequences
• Structure your strategic planning with a systematic decision analysis and problem-solving framework
• Avoid unconscious biases and common decision-making traps that lead to fallacious reasoning and unfavorable outcomes
• Improve the efficiency and quality of team decision making, without sacrificing consensus

• Putting the “strategy” into strategic decision making: strategy, vision and values-based decision making, advocacy vs. inquiry, translating corporate strategy into day-to-day decisions, managing conflicting objectives
• Frameworks for improving decision making: characterizing risk, uncertainty and opportunity, quantifying goals and identifying alternatives, valuation-based decision making, Decisive and the WRAP Framework, tools for multi-goal decision making, scenario building and strategic planning
• Decision biases and traps: cognition and decision making, intuition vs. analysis, identifying your own decision style, awareness and control of biases, group decision making and group decision traps

Special features

This workshop combines case studies, group activities and simulation to explore the concepts and tools of strategic decision making. You will apply what you are learning to your own strategic decisions, and you’ll receive worksheets and guides for making better strategic decisions back at your organization. 

Note:  participants in this program may qualify for up to $10,000 in funding through the Canada BC Job Grant program. Find out if you qualify.