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The CBP™ Business Improvement Series-Dynamic Decision Making course will increase your knowledge and ability to:
• Assesses your pattern of decision-making
• Describes how to make the right decision
• Identifies considerations to be taken into account when making a decision
• Establishes a framework for decision making
• Gathers the right information for decision making
• Creates alternatives and options
• Uses intuition
• Analyzes information accurately
• Examine results
• Be accountable and responsible for decisions made
• Understand the reasons for making bad decisions
• Checks and analyzes the results of decisions
Course Outcomes
At the end of this training program, you will be able to:
• Assess your pattern of decision-making
• Identify clear advantages for decisions made
• Gather important information and offers innovative alternatives
• Depend on intuition when making decisions
• Determine the results of decisions and their consequences
• Analyze risks and assess their level of risk tolerance
• Avoid common mistakes and psychological factors affecting the decision-making process
• Relate the appropriate strategy to the specific decision
• Develop clear guidelines to inform others of your decisions
• Describe the dynamics of collective decision-making
• Design an action plan to evaluate the results of its decisions
• Decision-making pattern is designed to suit different situations
Course Outlines
Module One: Assessing Your Decision Making Style
• Objectives
• Assessing Your Decision Making Style 
• Decision making process and potential traps
• Choosing how to make decisions 
• Interpreting Results 
• Making business decisions 
Module Two: Framing the Decision
• Objectives 
• Identifying what you want to accomplish 
• Writing a problem statement 
• Using the components of decision frames 
• Establishing Objectives 
• Examining the Case Study 
Module Three: Gathering Information
• Objectives 
• Better information means better decisions
• Intuition in decision making process 
• Examining solutions and options 
• Passive decision making 
• Imaginative alternatives
• Examining the Case Study 
Module Four: Analyzing The Information
• Objectives 
• Analyzing consequences 
• Using a consequence table 
• Determining tradeoffs 
• Determining risk tolerance 
• Slippery slope syndrome
• Examining the case study   Module Five: Why Bad Decisions Happen
• Objectives 
• Avoiding common mistakes 
• Avoiding mind snares 
• Acknowledge pivot points 
• Stress and decision making 
• Learning to lean on experts 
• Examining the case study 
Module Six: Making The Decision
• Objectives 
• Deciding how to decide
• The metadecision 
• Democratic decision making techniques 
• Using the consensus decision making  
• Collective participative decision making
• Using the autocratic decision making
• Avoiding bad decision making styles
• Communicating the decision
• Communicating with intent 
• Examining the case study
Module Seven: Auditing The Results of Decision Making
• Objectives
• Reviewing the decision
• Carrying out a decision review
• Examining the case study