Decision Making

If you have ever had to wrestle with a decision or a dilemma, you know it can be agonizing, distracting, and a great waste of time and energy. That's why we created the Decision Making workshop.

This unique seminar invites participants to bring an actual decision-problem to class, to help devise a suitably effective action plan. The Decision Making session covers key techniques for identifying a problem's components and relationships, methods for overcoming emotional paralysis, confusion and procrastination, methods of effective brainstorming, dialoguing and constructing what-if analyses on your own, and finally, techniques for implementing the outcome of the decision, including benchmarking, communicating, and dealing with lasting doubts or regrets. Even if you don't have a difficult decision to make right now, these skills and materials will help you when you do. Topics include:

The Problems:

• Analysis paralysis and emotional overload
• Dealing with indecision/ uncertainty
• Fears: commitment, regret
• Trying to please everyone
• Dealing with dilemma's, Hobson's choice and Damned-if-you-do/don't scenarios

The Techniques

• Defining and evaluating decisions
• Understanding your own decision-making style
• Working with others - using their decision-making skills
• Laying out a ground plan
• Building steps
• Keeping everything visible and tangible

Analysis Techniques

• Gap Analysis
• Zero-Sum Analysis
• What If Analysis
• The So-What approach
• Grid Analyses
• Balance Analyses

Coming to a Decision and Sticking with it

• Formulating a decision
• Planning steps to implementation
• Anticipating resistance among others
• Anticipating and eliminating self-doubt
• Establishing a plan of ongoing implementation
• Benchmarking and reporting

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