2096 - Strategic Thinking & Intelligent Decisions
Course Description
This course provides a more conscious process for making decisions, whether operational, tactical or strategic, and for communicating with others in your organization.
Einstein stated, and we paraphrase, “You cannot resolve an issue using the same thinking that got you here in the first place!” We must learn how to think our way through decision opportunities and make them work more effectively for us.
Better, more creative decisions will improve your organization’s success: The only sustainable competitive advantage is your ability to innovate and implement faster than your competitors can imitate.
Over the six sessions you will understand how you currently make, communicate and implement decisions and learn how to do it even better.
Learning Outcomes
- Determine your decision-making style and the styles of others
- Discover the pitfalls of some decision making “processes”
- Determine what stakeholders want to achieve
- Generate better solutions through the creativity and innovation of the team
- Evaluate solutions to choose the best possible solution (benefits, costs and risks)
- Build commitment for the best possible solution
- Consider how to get the buy-in of others in and outside the organization
- Implement flawlessly
Notes
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The course uses the flipped classroom model with the material to be studied preceding each webinar. The material is in the form of narrated power-points with exercises for reinforcement of core concepts and discussion boards for reflection and discussion of how concepts apply to learner’s own situation. Webinars are focused on class discussion of key learning points and small group sharing of key learnings from HBR articles covering critical thinking and leadership topics.
This course is recognised by the following association(s). Click on the association name for details.
- Project Management Institute (PMI) 15.0 PDU
This course may be applied towards the SCS Certificate(s) in
- Strategic Leadership: Advanced : Required Courses
Tom Barker is currently a consultant, facilitator and passionate educator, leading his own consulting organization, Tom Barker Associates.Tom assists clients such as Canadian Tire, AstraZeneca and Mattamy Homes to improve project and process performance through leadership and change management. Committed to helping adult learners succeed, Tom’s teaching focuses on business process management, business analysis and project management. Tom’s consulting career began at Deloitte's in London where he pioneered the business modeling of stock replenishment systems and improved processes for large retail clients. At Digital Equipment (DEC), he led business analysis projects and managed the implementation of pilot systems for global messaging. As Managing Director, Tennessee Associates Canadian office, Tom was lead consultant on various process re-engineering projects for Fortune 500 companies in the USA. An exceptional business analyst, Tom was a volunteer writer for International Institute of Business Analysis’ (IIBA) update of its body of knowledge BABOK v3.