Foundations of Decision Quality
- Explore the foundations of decision quality
- Understand the ways in which your mind, personality, and social structures can degrade your decision-making
- Discover six categories of biases that produce most of the mistakes in decision making
- Discuss how overconfidence, confirmation bias, and hindsight bias can keep us from seeking critical information and making realistic judgments
- Understand the limiting effects of unconscious self-serving biases in yourself and others
Make Sound Decisions
- Avoid the pitfalls that can degrade our decision making
- Think clearly and insightfully about the decisions you face
- Explore methods to trade off competing value metrics and objectives
- Guide others in improving their decision making
Deal with Uncertainty and Risk
- Develop tools and mental frameworks that will allow you to deal effectively with uncertainty
- Quantify your appetite for risk and how to factor this into your decision making
In Partnership with Strategic Decisions Group
The Strategic Decision and Risk Management Certificate courses offered by Texas Executive Education combine The University of Texas at Austin’s academic and research depth with the decision and risk management expertise and track record of Strategic Decisions Group (SDG). Strategic Decisions Group (SDG) is a global consulting firm with expertise in strategic decision making, risk management and shareholder value creation. SDG’s collaborative approach helps clients find innovative strategies for today while helping them build decision competency for the future.
Decision Quality: Make the Right Choice Every Time
Learn how to frame strategic choices, generate alternatives, develop credible forecasts, quantify uncertainty and judge the quality of a decision at the time it is made.
Human Biases in Decision Making: Avoiding the Traps
Understand the ways in which your mind, personality, and social structures can degrade your decision-making.
Leading Strategic Decision Making
Achieve success by effectively diagnosing a decision situation, designing a clear approach, facilitating communication, and presenting compelling rationale to key stakeholders.
Modeling and Analytics for Strategic Insight
Create models that answer executives’ questions, produce compelling analyses, and ultimately gain commitment.
Multi-Party Decision Making: From Conflict to Resolution
Assemble concepts, tools, and skills for applying the DQ Framework in multi-party situations.
Scenarios and Forecasting: Planning for Uncertainty
Improve strategic decision-making with enhanced forecasting methods and by leveraging scenarios to foster insight.
