Decision Making for Leaders
Master decision-making frameworks, from rational processes to data-driven analytics, making informed choices that minimize bias, leverage evidence and achieve organizational objectives.
$224
Total: Course cost
3 hours to complete
modules
Online - self-paced
Learning modality
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$224
Total: Course cost
3 hours to complete
modules
Online - self-paced
Learning modality
Earn a credential
View credential
$224
Total: Course cost
3 hours to complete
modules
Online - self-paced
Learning modality
Earn a credential
View credential
$224
Total: Course cost
3 hours to complete
Duration
Online - self-paced
Overview
Learn how to align organizational planning with mission, vision and values to drive purposeful leadership and strategic success. This course explores the planning process as a core leadership skill, showing how effective plans support an organization’s broader goals.
Learners will distinguish between mission and vision, develop values statements and explore planning tools such as Management by Objectives (MBO), SMART goals and contingency planning. By the end of the course, participants will understand how to implement planning cycles that keep teams focused and aligned with long-term organizational purpose.
Key Benefits:
- Emotional intelligence and cognitive bias awareness
- Rational decision-making and evidence-based approaches
- Descriptive and predictive analytics applications
What's Included:
- Expert instruction on decision-making barriers and biases
- Decision-making styles including rational, bounded and heuristic approaches
- Evidence-based and data-driven decision frameworks
- Decision trees, group decision techniques and consensus building
Transform decision quality through systematic, evidence-informed leadership practices.
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Certificate program
This course is a part of the following certificate program:
Who this course is designed for
- Leaders making strategic and operational decisions
- Managers overseeing complex decision processes and outcomes
- Business analysts supporting decision-making with data and analytics
- Team leaders facilitating group decisions and building consensus
- Professionals developing analytical and critical thinking capabilities
- Anyone seeking to improve decision-making effectiveness in leadership roles
Outcomes
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
- Define emotional intelligence and explain its role in individual and group decision-making
- Describe barriers to effective decisions, including cognitive biases, heuristics, and psychological influences
- Summarize decision-making styles and the steps in the rational decision-making process
- Differentiate between evidence-based and data-driven decision-making using analytics and decision trees
- Identify strategies and techniques for guiding group decision-making and building consensus
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