Why Choose this Training Course?
Decision-making is a complex and distinctly human capability aimed at guiding organizations, teams, and individuals toward a more positive and productive future. Whether through a methodical, rational approach or a more creative and intuitive process, effective decision-making is a cornerstone of strong leadership. Decisive leaders distinguish themselves in their ability to navigate this complexity.
In today's world, which values debate, diverse perspectives, and "collective wisdom," leaders must foster environments that encourage contributions from all members while implementing decision-making practices that minimize bias and drive successful outcomes. Leaders are increasingly seen as "architects" who design frameworks that support effective decision-making.
This engaging COPEX training course provides a thorough examination of the decision-making process, from diagnosing problems to crafting solutions. It emphasizes the leader's role as the "decision-making architect" and explores the psychological, cognitive, and emotional factors that can enhance or hinder decision-making. Participants will gain a wide range of tools and techniques to boost personal confidence, ensure productive organizational outcomes, and foster activities that promote engagement and innovation.
What are the Goals?
By the end of this COPEX training course, participants will be able to:
- Enhance Decision Making Practices Using Logical Reasoning, Critical Thinking, and Rigorous Application of Evaluative and Analytical Skills
- Understand the Psychological Principles Underpinning the Decision-Making Process and Personalise Them to Real Life Situations Grounded in Their Own Organisations
- Explore Radical Approaches to Decision-Making that Balance Emotion with Logic and Reason with Intuition
- Demonstrate Self-Belief and Interpersonal Confidence in Their Decision-Making Activities that Enhance Their Credibility in the Leadership Role
- Promote a Culture of Innovation and Collaborative Inquiry that Recognises and Utilises the Creativity and Collective Wisdom Within Organisations
Who is this Training Course for?
This COPEX training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals or anyone wishing to improve their problem solving and decision-making skills. It will have specific appeal to:
- All Professionals Wishing to Further Develop Their Leadership, Critical Thinking and Decision-Making Skills to Enhance Their Career Progression
- Leadership Professionals who Wish to Utilise Creative Techniques That Offer Insight Into Organisational Concerns
- HR Professionals and Training Coordinators Responsible for Coaching Managers and Employees in Performance Changing Techniques
- All Employees who Find Themselves Constantly Seeking Tools and Techniques to Assist Them in Meeting the Challenging They Currently Face
- Technical Professionals Including Those in Maintenance, Engineering & Production
- Team Leaders Interested in Further Developing Their Management and Facilitation Skills to Build Collaborative Practice and Harness the Richness of Diverse Thinking
- Organisational Leaders who Make Key Business Decisions and Seek Tools for Guidance
- Professional New to Leadership/Management Roles and Wishing to Improve Their Communication, Interpersonal, Problem Solving and Decision-Making Skills
- Leaders Who Seek to Challenge the Culture of Their Organisation and Build the Innovation Necessary for the “Enterprise Culture” of the 21st Century
Course Outline
Day One: The Leader as the “Decision Architect”. Psychological Insights
- How Perception influences our understanding of leadership
- Changing Paradigms of leadership thought
- The “Decision Architect”, agile, responsive and decisive leadership
- Personality, leadership style and decision-making activity
- Systematic errors in decision making: thinking preferences and their implications
- Decision making and problem solving: symbiotic twins: How elastic is my brain?
Day Two: Developing a Structured and Balanced Response to Decision Making
- A systematic, mechanistic and structured approach to making decisions
- Team exercise: collaboration, isolation and group thinking
- Impacting variables: Ethics, Values, Bias, Spiral dynamics and Hubris
- How well do I make decisions? Analysis, reflection and outcomes
- IDEAL Problem Solving: Stage 1 in the decision-making process
- Collective inquiry to ensure IDEAL outcomes: “making work groups smarter”
Day Three: Optimising Organisational Performance through Collaborative Dialogues, Strategic Tools and Committed Practice
- Emotional Intelligence, collaborative practice and decision making
- Understanding Team Dynamics: Equipping Your Team to Make Decisions
- Diagnostic tools for organisational improvement Case study: Millennial Engagement
- Daniel Kahneman: Nobel prize winning thoughts on decision making
- Whole brain thinking: divergent and convergent thinking
- Applied Practice: Assessing organisational concerns through a “zig zag” approach
Day Four: Building Creative Insights and Innovative Capability in the Organisation
- How to make good decisions; peer coaching sessions
- Appreciative Enquiry: accentuating the positive to eliminate the negative
- Alternative forms of representation: soft system methodology for insightful change
- Using Nature and multiple intelligences for creative outcomes
- Assessing culture and organisational creativity; does it create the desired future
- How creative am I? Adaptive and Innovative potential?
Day Five: Architectural Leadership: Vision, Inspiration and Momentum
- Developing the critical mindset of the “Decision Architect”
- Predicting the future: simple tools for organisational sustainability
- Decision making in Leadership: a case study of Vision, Inspiration, Momentum
- My VIM statements: strategic, organisational and personal
- Beware the unpredictable black swan!
- Review and action planning
The Certificate
- COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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