Talks, lectures and training

Talks, lectures and training

Training

One of our main services is giving courses or talks on the subject of decision-making. There are two types of training programme:

• An off-the-shelf training series of 2 or 3 days (depending on requirements) covering strategic decision making from process through to behavioural issues and incorporating tools, templates, case study and role-playing.
  Course elements include visualisation, knowledge management, intuition versus judgement, decision leadership, management of uncertainty, creativity in decision-making and scenario evaluation.
• A customised training programme that is personalised to meet the specific requirements of the organisation, including customised case studies and addressing specific decision-types.
  This course can also be used to support team-building within the decision-making team.

Talks and lectures
Our lectures and talks are generally customised towards the needs of our client.

They are ideal as part of a company conference or leadership development programme. The core of our material is built around our competency in solving complex problems and taking strategic decisions.

Typical topics include the following:

 

• The 7 habits of highly effective decision makers (NEW)
• Taking strategic decisions in the face of high uncertainty
• Managing complexity through visualisation
• Strategic decision analysis
• Behavioural impact on decision-making
• Applying systems thinking to difficult decisions
• Judgement in decision making – rationality versus gut
• Black swans, long-tailed dragons and elephants in the room – why its amazing we even sometimes make good decisions
• Creativity and innovation in decision-making – why and how.
• Using mind maps for structured problem solution
• Decisions concerning mergers and acquisitions
• Decisions concerning outsourcing
• Decisions concerning procurement
• The decision coach – leading the decision-making process
• Scenario development – why and how
• Problem framing – the key element in decision making and problem solving
• Multi criteria decision analysis

Note we also lecture at IE Business School (Madrid and other locations) and can provide you with details of the next open programme