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Strategic Decision-Making Models for Managers

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Enhance your Strategic Decision-Making Capabilities

Strategic Decision-Making Models for Managers
Course Schedule

CLASSROOM

28 Apr-02 May 2025
London
$5,950
16-20 Jun 2025
Houston
$6,950
11-15 Aug 2025
Amsterdam
$5,950
03-07 Nov 2025
London
$5,950
12-16 Jan 2026
Dubai
$5,950
Certificate
  • Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

Training Overview

Training Overview

Strategic decisions stand out as some of the most critical choices we face daily, yet they are also the most daunting due to their inherent complexity. These decisions involve managing multiple, conflicting strategic objectives and perspectives, presenting a significant challenge in finding a balanced approach. They carry long-term consequences that are difficult to foresee and quantify accurately. Crafting effective solutions demands creativity and innovation to define viable alternatives. Moreover, these decisions often necessitate substantial resource allocation, which can be irreversible once implemented.

Coventry Academy offers a unique 5-day training course tailored to address these complexities directly. This comprehensive program provides a platform to conquer these challenges, enabling participants to master the art and science of strategic decision-making. Through this course, you will gain invaluable experience in applying proven techniques that enhance your ability to make sound strategic decisions. These techniques are specifically designed to excel in environments marked by complexity, uncertainty, and competing objectives.

What are the goals?

By attending this Coventry Academy training course, delegates will be able to:

  • Grasp the Reasons for Making Decisions Using the Process of Structured Analysis
  • Identify When and How to Involve Others in the Process Making Decisions or Solving Problem
  • Apply the Steps to Use to Achieve the Highest Probability of Successful Decisions and Solutions
  • Interpret and Analyse Data More Successfully
  • Appreciate the Significance and Value of Various Problem-Solving Approaches and Styles
  • Develop an Operational Framework for Effectively Facing a Variety of Problem Situations

Who is this Training Course for?

This Coventry Academy training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Managers Who Are or Will Be in Leadership Positions
  • Executives From Across the Organizations Who are Involved in Important Decisions
  • Team Leaders
  • Anyone Wishing to Develop Their Decision Readiness and Confidence

The Course Content

Day One: Effective Decision Making
  • Define decision making
  • Rational v emotional decision making
  • Individual v Collective
  • The science behind decisions
  • Avoiding decision making
  • Psychological biases
Day Two: Decision Models
  • Process of decision making
  • Kepner Tregoe
  • Decision trees
  • Other tools
  • Intuition: thinking fast and slow
  • Neuroscience – the brain is not 2 halves
Day Three: Problem Analysis/ Problem Solving
  • Types of problems
  • Problem solving process
  • Question bursts
  • Solving complex problems
  • Who makes decisions?
  • Getting consensus
Day Four: Managers and Decision-Making
  • Strategic decision making
  • Understanding the environment
  • Variables in strategy development
  • Option development/option selection
  • Delivering multiple goals, agendas, objectives
  • Building a strategic planning framework
Day Five: Engaging & Empowering Staff
  • The paradox: compliance v creativity
  • Agile decision making
  • What if mistakes occur?
  • Strategic drift
  • Decisions at an inflection point
  • Review and action planning