Decision Making Strategies for Leaders
Decision Making Strategies for Leaders
Skills you’ll gain
Making strong decisions is an important skill, increasingly so for today's business leaders. However, traditional advice to "go with your gut" is often the cause of decision-making blunders.
In this course, decision-making expert and world-renowned trainer Dr. Gleb Tsipursky shares his scientifically backed methods to identify your systematic blindspots and overcome them during the decision-making process. Gleb first discusses the neuroscience behind decision-making and the heightened importance this has for leaders. He then reviews the traps and biases that leaders can often fall into that hinder their ability to make the best decisions possible. Finally, Gleb shares proven strategies leveraged by Fortune 500 leaders and organizations to push past these traps and ultimately make better, more meaningful decisions.
Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to make better decisions for yourself and your team.
Syllabus
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Your gut or your head? You must have heard many times that you should trust your gut and follow your intuitions in making a decision. 3m
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Your brain on decision making Mastering effective decision-making requires you to apply insights into how your brain makes decisions. 3m
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When your gut may be right Is your gut ever reliable in making a decision? 3m
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Dangerous judgment errors Your brain makes over 100 dangerous judgment errors that you need to address to make the best decisions. 3m
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Overconfidence bias You need to overcome the overconfidence bias, the tendency of leaders to be too confident in their decisions. 3m
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Planning fallacy The planning fallacy occurs when leaders attempt to make excessively optimistic plans and not shift them quickly enough when the situation changes. 3m
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Confirmation bias Confirmation bias is when you might seek out information that confirms your beliefs and ignores information that doesn't. 3m
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Loss aversion Loss aversion happens when leaders tend to make unprofitable decisions by prioritizing avoiding losses over acquiring gains. 4m
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Illusion of transparency The illusion of transparency happens when a leader is too optimistic about their communications effectiveness. 3m
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Empathy gap The empathy gap occurs when you underestimate the impact of your emotions and the emotions of others. 3m
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Quick decision making You need to make many decisions quickly at a "good enough" level to succeed as a leader. 4m
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Major decision making As a leader, you'll be faced with making a major decision more often than the rest of your team. 4m
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Preventing failure in implementing decisions Even if you made the best possible decision, it won't matter if you can't operationalize your decision successfully. 3m
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Future-proofing your strategy You'll want to decide the right strategy to protect yourself and your team from dangerous threats or missed opportunities. 4m
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Decision making mastery Thanks for watching this course! 2m
Certificate
Certificate of Completion
Awarded upon successful completion of the course.
Instructor
Gleb Tsipursky
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is a world-renowned expert in future-proofing, decision-making, and cognitive bias risk management. He is a global best-selling author and has written seven books, including Never Go with Your Gut and Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams.
As CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, Gleb has spent over 20 years training and consulting leaders of Fortune 500 firms. He has researched and taught for 15 years as a Fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill and is a professor at Ohio State. Gleb is passionate about helping forward-looking leaders avoid career threats and missed opportunities.
Gleb Tsipursky
Disaster-Avoidance Expert
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