Decision-making tools: the processes
Context and rationale
As a company director, you will have to make strategic decisions. This is not an easy exercise, given the many parameters to take into account. To help you in your task, consider using decision-making tools.
This course will therefore enable you to acquire the methods, tools and techniques needed for optimal decision-making.
Training objectives
- Knowing the decision-making process in order to optimise your decisions
- Learning to manage the rational and emotional dimensions of decisions
- Spotting cognitive biases that may distort a decision.
- Defining decision criteria, comparing and combining solutions to reach a satisfactory choice.
- Using a powerful method to imagine the action plan before formalising it
- Communicating about the decision, sharing responsibility with your staff and ensuring the decision is implemented
Training content
Self-assessment of your decision-making abilities
- Listening to your intuition.
- Identifying the people who should legitimately make the decision.
- Triggering the spark to get a go-ahead in the decision process.
Knowing the different types of analysis and decision-making process
- Distinguishing factual, interpretive and forward-looking analysis.
- Knowing how to channel decision-making through a quantitative and a qualitative approach.
- Identifying the different types and characteristics of decision-making processes.
- Taking stock and choosing the best solution when making a decision.
- Decision-making: a process of building objective choices.
Defining a positive objective and exploring solutions
- Clarifying a confused problem with powerful questioning.
- Breaking down complex decisions.
- Defining the limits of your decision-making power.
- Defining a concrete, realistic and positive objective.
- Leading a group brainstorming session.
- Freeing creative thinking with mind mapping.
- Overcoming blockages and going beyond obvious solutions with specific creativity techniques.
Choosing and turning the decision into action
- Spotting cognitive biases that may distort a decision.
- Defining decision criteria, comparing and combining solutions to reach a satisfactory choice.
- Triggering an emotional spark to manage resistance to risk-taking and move from solution to decision.
- Using a powerful method to imagine the action plan before formalising it.
Mastering the range of analysis methods and decision support tools
- Knowing strategic analysis matrices: SWOT, Porter, BCG...
- Knowing structured analysis methods: checking assumptions, analysing competing hypotheses...
- Knowing analysis by opposition methods: threat analysis framework, benchmarking...
- Benchmark of analysis tools and automated processing
- Mind mapping and maps
- Automatic summaries and extraction
- Text mining, data mining: statistical and semantic models
- Knowledge mapping tools
- Automated sentiment analysis
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