Effective Decision Making

EFFECTIVE DECISION MAKING

Decision-making is a deliberative process which centres on an actor’s ability 1) to diagnose problems; 2) to develop alternative, workable solutions and 3) to implement chosen corrective actions that restore desired levels of efficiency and functionality. However, decision making processes are often beset with problems.  In this highly interactive course, participants will learn how to optimise their decision-making through a mixture of group work, role-playing and thought experiments.  The aim of this course is to develop the participants’ ability to identify deficiencies in their decision-making processes and to engineer and deploy problem-solving strategies that are appropriate to the particularities of different problem situations.

THE PROGRAMME INCLUDES:

• The steps of rational decision making
• Expected utility theory
• Prospect theory
• Attribution theory
• The representativeness heuristic
• The availability heuristic
• Motivational biases
• The social dimension of decision making
• Groupthink
• Common traps

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN TO:

• Identify the traps and biases that distort decision making
• Prevent the recurrence of problems
• Minimize exposure to future problems
• Deploy context-specific problem-solving strategies

For group Booking please call us direct on 061 502342 or info@languagelink.ie