Build an environment where better decisions can happen
The quality of organisational decisions depends on more than the skills of individual decision-makers.
How problems are discussed, who is involved, whether assumptions can be challenged, how evidence is considered, how options are developed, and how leaders respond to uncertainty and disagreement can all influence the quality of the decisions a team makes.
Creating a Culture of Strategic Decision-Making: Practical Tools for Leaders and Managers helps managers and leaders understand how they can shape these conditions.
The course provides practical tools, questions and strategies for creating an environment that encourages rigorous thinking, constructive challenge, collaboration and high-quality decision-making.
Participants will explore the individual and organisational factors that can undermine decision quality and learn practical ways to strengthen how their teams approach complex problems, develop options, provide advice and make important decisions.
The course is particularly relevant in environments where decisions must be made despite complexity, uncertainty, competing priorities and different stakeholder perspectives.
Fully online and self-paced, the course provides approximately eight hours of professional development that can be completed at a time and pace that suits you.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify a range of individual and organisational biases that can negatively impact upon organisational decision quality.
- Help to create a culture of strategic decision-making in your organisation.
- Improve your organisation’s capacity to respond to complex organisational and analytical challenges.
- Improve your individual performance and add value to your organisation by consistently making better decisions.
Who should attend
This course is designed for people who have responsibility for leading others or shaping how decisions are made within a team, function or organisation.
It is particularly relevant to:
- managers and team leaders;
- executives and senior professionals;
- project and program leaders;
- policy and strategy managers;
- people responsible for governance, planning, risk or organisational performance;
- professionals who regularly lead collaborative or cross-functional decision-making;
- people who have recently moved into a management or leadership role; and
- those preparing for roles in which they will have greater responsibility for people and organisational decision-making.
The course is especially applicable for people working across state and local government, public sector agencies, not-for-profit, and other public-purpose organisations.
The course is best suited to participants who have, or are preparing to take on, some responsibility for leading people, teams or organisational decision-making.
What you will receive
- Approximately eight hours of engaging, self-paced online learning focused on improving decision-making at the team and organisational level.
- A practical diagnostic exercise to help you identify individual and organisational factors that may influence decision quality.
- A fully referenced e-book providing an ongoing resource for strengthening decision-making within your team or organisation.
- A Checklist for Practical Action to help leaders and managers translate the course principles into practical changes in their workplace.
- A suite of practical questions, tools and strategies that can be applied to real team and organisational decisions.
- Certificate of completion.
Access & Duration
Upon registration, you will receive your username and password by email, usually within 4–5 hours. If you have not received your access details within 24 hours, please contact enquiries@nconsulting.com.au for assistance.
You will have access to all course materials for 60 days from registration. The course can be completed in approximately eight hours, although participants may choose to work through the material progressively over several weeks.
