High quality decisions have always been essential for strong business performance. Yet with the increasing speed, complexity and data availability in today's competitive environment, superior decision skills are more important than ever. This workshop will help you improve your decision making skills by offering behavioral insights into how people actually think and make decisions. It then teaches the advanced critical thinking skills and creative strategies needed to manage unfamiliar, highly complex problems or decisions that involve significant uncertainty. It offers strategies on how managers and executives can deal more effectively with ambiguous information, loosely structured problems, deep uncertainty, and complex tradeoffs. The focus is on critical thinking, breakthrough problem solving, learning and the effective use of groups.
Guide to Participant Selection
Department
Admin
Distrib
Engr
Finc
H.R.
Legal
Mktng
IT
Opr
Plng
Pchsg
R&D
Sales
Senior
Executive
(Pres, Exec & Sr VP)
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
Executive
(VP & Gen'l Mgr)
2
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
Senior
Managers
(Div & Reg. Mgrs)
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Middle
Managers
& Superintendents
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
2
2
2
APPLICABILITY: 1
indicates
primary target audience. 2 indicates a good fit
if the level of material is appropriate.
3 indicates (in
the opinion of the institute and the faculty) very limited applicability.
Los Angeles - September 15 