Individual online course
Decision-making | Making decisions when nothing is perfect
Decision-making | Making decisions when nothing is perfect
- Duration: 90 min.
- Available languages: English and French
- For whom: Managers
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Contents Overview
Contents Overview
Discover the DECIDER compass
- Understand why difficult decisions call for a structured approach rather than a search for perfection
- Recognize common pitfalls, such as deciding too quickly, consulting without a clear purpose, or trying to convince everyone
- Explore the seven steps of the DECIDER Compass
- Use the compass as a flexible guide rather than a rigid procedure
- Choose a real difficult decision to analyze throughout the training
Read the situation before making a decision
- Recognize that different situations call for different decision-making approaches
- Distinguish between clear, complicated, complex, critical, and unclear situations, and adapt your approach accordingly
- Identify the people affected and the values in tension
- Bring unavoidable constraints and foreseeable human impacts into focus
- Identify and assess different types of risks
Avoid the traps and choose how to decide
- Recognize blind spots and biases that can narrow your judgment
- Check whether the criteria you're using are still relevant to the current situation
- Identify false dilemmas that limit your thinking to two overly simple options
- Reframe a dilemma to explore new possibilities
- Choose the decision-making approach that best fits the situation
Make clear decisions and explain them directly
- Make a decision that's imperfect but clear and defensible
- Document the essentials without making the process unnecessarily complicated
- Identify what needs to be monitored after the decision is implemented
- Communicate the decision directly
- Base your decision on clear criteria rather than personal preferences
- Acknowledge the human impact while standing by the decision
- Clarify what's been decided, what can still be adjusted, and how follow-up will work
Review the outcomes and learn from the decision
- Understand that accountability continues after a decision is announced
- Observe both expected and unexpected outcomes
- Identify signs that adjustments may be needed
- Determine who to consult to understand the decision's real-world impact
- Distinguish between what needs to stay consistent and what can be adjusted
- Use follow-up to learn from the decision without constantly reopening it
Period of validity
Period of validity
Training is available 90 days from the date of purchase
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Online training to develop your decision-making skills: Learn to make difficult decisions with confidence, even when things are uncertain
Making a difficult decision isn't simply about choosing between a good option and a bad one. It often means navigating a grey area where several factors pull you in different directions: incomplete information, real-world constraints, risks to accept, competing values, and the human impact of your choices.
This training offers a practical approach to making better decisions when nothing is perfectly clear. The goal isn't to eliminate uncertainty or always find “the right answer.” It's to build the skills and habits to assess situations accurately, broaden your perspective, choose an appropriate decision-making approach, and make decisions with greater rigour.
Through the DECIDER compass, realistic scenarios, and an in-depth look at a real decision, you'll also learn to communicate your choices clearly and respectfully, acknowledge their impact without becoming defensive, and monitor outcomes so you can adjust course when needed. You'll walk away with a practical approach to making difficult decisions clearer, easier to justify, and easier to stand behind.
By exploring the modules of this training course, you will be able to:
- Assess a situation to identify the most appropriate decision-making approach
- Make decisions even when they're uncomfortable, balancing risks, values, constraints, and the human impact
- Communicate difficult decisions and take responsibility for them
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Why choose this training?
Discover a unique approach that goes beyond simple theoretical concepts. At Boostalab, each training is designed to be practical, interactive and directly applicable in your professional daily life. You will see results tomorrow!
The more you buy, the more you save!
Whether it's for you or your team, it pays to consolidate your purchases:
- 5 to 9 training courses: 30% discount
- 10 + training courses: 50% off!