Think strategically and make better decisions
Many executives report that making decisions is one of their biggest professional challenges. This workshop examines the art and science of strategic decision making. Learn how to identify the most strategically important dimensions on which to ground your decisions, and find your best options. Practice proven techniques for making better strategic decisions in the face of complexity, uncertainty and conflicting objectives.
Program format
Day One focuses on individual strategic decision making, while Day Two examines group decision making. Sessions include interactive group exercises and a simulation, which you will experience in real time with your peers.
Strategic Decision Making
"The time distribution as well as the use of large and small groups was really balanced and worked very well. The small group exercises were definitely a highlight, enabling us to explore the things we had discussed in the larger group, and to try out new methods for group decision making.”
Who is this for?
Middle to senior-level leaders who are responsible for making complex decisions in their organizations.
"This program opened my mind to the multiple moral and business values that influence strategy every day. By harnessing that power and consciously operating in that value frame, we can guide and align decisions throughout the organization."
Benefits for you
- 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
“This program teaches practical skills that can be applied immediately in one's everyday job. Learning not only from top-notch educators, but also with peers from various backgrounds, enhances the experience.”
Program content
- 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.
Program leader
Dr. Steven Minns
Upcoming sessions
Dec 9 - 10, 2021 (Online Real Time)
Times apply to all days:
8:30am - 12:00pm PT
1:00pm - 4:30pm PT
*times subject to change
For financial assistance opportunities, please refer to Financial Assistance, Scholarships and Team Rates .
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Contact a learning advisor for more details.
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Get in touch
604.822.8400 or 1.800.618.3932
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