Decision Making - An Introduction for New Managers

Introduction

We can all look back on those critical decisions that have shaped our lives, our careers or our companies. But did we get them all right?

Our lives become a constant exercise in experiential learning, that hopefully improves our decision-making capability. Our human brains are typically optimised to ‘learn from experience’.

So, when you suddenly arrive in a position of some authority at work, where decision making is key, the good news is that you will already have been making decisions for years! You just need to tap into that wealth of experience and understand some key dynamics that help you make the right decisions.

This webinar will explore:

• The key areas of the brain that impact decision making from a very early age
• How constraints frame the decision - and how to flush them out - and challenge them!
• Fact vs Emotion - and how to strike the balance
• Data driven decision making, and which data to trust
• Artificial Intelligence - a help or a hindrance for decision makers?
• The role of Pain and Gain in motivating us and others to make decisions
• Certainty vs Uncertainty and why ambiguity is a ‘fact of life’
• ‘Reframing the outcome’ to get clarity and identify innovative solutions

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• The role of emotion in decision making and which day of the week gets the best decisions
• How to make friends with ambiguity
• A risk-based approach to decision making - and identifying others to share that risk
• The joy of a ‘Test and Learn’ approach - the ultimate risk mitigator
• Knowing how to recognise the difference between ‘Yes’, ‘No’ and ‘Go-on Then’ decisions
• How a Systems Thinking approach gets you curious for the right outcomes
• The ‘Right-to-Left’ approach to focus on the critical outcomes for successful decisions
• How Artificial Intelligence can help you make decisions

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Friday 2nd May 2025

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