Thinking Critically and Driving Performance

Course Title:	Thinking Critically and Driving Performance
Upcoming Dates:	December 7-8, 2009 July 26-27, 2010
Cost:	$1,995

Thinking Critically and Driving Performance: Making the Right Decisions Now exposes you to applied decision making frameworks and tools designed to enhance your creative and strategic abilities for effective decision making. This course aims to improve your decision making skills across several organizational domains by applying a variety of techniques that minimize risk and maximize impact and influence.

 

Who Should Participate

Leaders at the mid to upper management level, who impact decisions within their organizations, and want to enhance their level of ability and influence.

Detailed Course Description

In this program, you will learn qualitative and quantitative decision making models and frameworks in a highly applied and experiential learning environment. You will be challenged with a sequence of problems that require you to engage in thoughtful and strategic decision making practices. Through a combination of exercises and content delivery, you will have the opportunity to continuously practice various decision making approaches in an array of simulated organizational domains.

Key Topics:

• The impact of your frame of reference on decision making and overcoming it
• Structured Decision Making
• Strategic Decision Making
• Statistical Thinking or variability
• Implications of decisions for individuals and groups

After completing Thinking Critically and Driving Performance: Making the Right Decisions Now, you will have the ability to

• Analyze situations requiring decisions and determine which decision making approaches are most suitable
• Understand and identify strategies for overcoming decision making biases
• Recognize which decision making tools are useful in influencing a decision when you do not have official decision making authority
• Understand different frameworks for making more sound and informed decisions
• Understand how to build consensus and communicate effectively in group decision making
  

Course Faculty:

Michael Sacks, Associate Professor in the Practice of Organization and Management, Goizueta Business School
Steve Walton, Associate Professor in the Information Systems and Operations Management, Goizueta Business School