High-Impact Decision Making: Reducing Risks, Maximizing Results October 7, 2009

Decide crucial matters with clarity and confidence.

With financial markets in a state of upheaval, the stakes have never been higher when it comes to making important decisions. This seminar provides you with powerful and unique decision-making techniques to achieve clarity and decisiveness—and avoid costly or disastrous mistakes when making critical decisions. Using innovative, breakthrough techniques such as the Clarity State Decision-Making Model, you will be empowered to make better-informed and focused high-impact decisions that are more effective, sustainable and successful. In addition, you’ll get an opportunity to apply these skills to your own current high-impact business issues and practice making these difficult decisions in a class environment.
How You Will Benefit

* Think and act with increased confidence in a contradictory, changeable and pressured environment
* Know how to find the right balance between rational thinking and intuition
* Analyze, articulate and draw the appropriate conclusions with more clarity
* Minimize the uncertainty in risky decisions and achieve greater decisiveness
* Assess risk and evaluate timing and effectiveness with the Decision Map
* Be better prepared to commit to your decisions
* Align teams around high-risk decisions and create buy-in

What You Will Cover

* Defining decision and decision objective
* Recognizing and identifying the role of clarity in decision making
* The five components of the Clarity State Decision-Making Model, techniques and methods
* Creating a decision map to facilitate making the decision
* Recognizing and using balance between emotions and rational thought
* The concept of framing
* Applying techniques for reframing to a decision
* Analyzing a decision (personal or business) to assess risk and identify early indicators
* Using the Decision Map to create the basis for communicating and selling the decision

Who Should Attend

Managers and directors whose decisions have long-term effects, significantly impacting financials, people, processes and the reputation of their department or company.

Note: Please bring your current high-impact business issues to class so you can practice making tough decisions in a safe, insightful environment.
Extended Training Description

Learning Objectives

* Apply a Unique Decision-Making Process to a Current, High Impact Decision
* Make High Impact Decisions Firmly Aligned with Your Personal Values, Your Role, and the Needs and Objectives in Your Business Environment
* Analyze Results and Processes for Refining Future Decisions

Clarity in Decision Making

* Define Clarity
* Define/Describe State of Clarity
* Describe a Clear Decision
* Practice Techniques to Get Clarity Consistently

The Clarity State Decision-Making Process

* Explain What Is Effective Decision Making
* Describe the Role of the Clarity State in the Decision-Making Model
* Describe the Five Components of the Clarity Decision-Making Model, Techniques and Methods

Creating a Decision Map

* Define the Elements in a Decision
* Apply Decision Map Development Techniques to a Business Decision

Developing Emotional Clarity

* Describe the Role of Emotions in Decision Making
* Apply Techniques to Using Emotions Effectively When Making Decisions

Developing Alternative Perspectives

* Define Perspective/Frames
* Apply Techniques for Reframing to Own Decision

Evaluating Decision Alternatives

* Describe Methods to Evaluate Your Decision Alternatives Rationally
* Analyze a Decision to Assess Risk and Identify Early Indicators
* Select the Best Choice or Alternative That Fits the Business Decision, and Make the Decision
* Use a Decision Map to Create the Basis for Communicating and Selling the Decision

Official Website: http://www.focustraco.com/index.php/tm-training-schedule/details/250-116104