Decision Making as a Leader

When you become a leader of people, people look to you to make decisions. The question is; should you be the one to make that decision? Should you socialise the decision before making it? Will other people buy into the decision? Your decision-making style that made you successful as a self-leader may not always be compatible as a people leader.

This reflective and participative Decision Making As A Leader course will explore your styles and how to flex that style appropriately to reach better outcomes for you and the team.

Course Content

Your Natural Decision-Making Style

The autocratic – democratic decision-making style spectrum
Your personal style and inherent benefits and traps

Deciding How to Decide

Exploration of Victor Vroom’s Decision-Making model
Case Studies Analysis
Application of tools to different scenarios

Decision Implementation

Peer coaching and application of Vroom’s model to personal case-study
Communicating your decision to the team
Overcoming the challenges of your decision style

Course Approach

CHALLENGE

How we view our own decision-making style and question the benefits and drawbacks that style gives in different situations

CREATE

A deeper understanding of how we make decisions and the options that are available to us
New thinking patterns to allow you to explore different ways to make decisions with other people

CHANGE

How you make decisions with other people against robust criteria
Thinking patterns that may trap you into making inefficient decisions

Embedding Success

Post-programme activities to support the transfer of learning and building of habits

CHALLENGE

Reflect on recent approaches to making decisions when time was not a critical factor.

What was your approach to making that decision involving others?

How did that help or hinder?

What does this tell you about how you make decisions?

Now reflect on recent decisions when time was a critical factor and repeat this process

CREATE

Look at your to-do list or your upcoming meetings or projects.

What are some of the bigger decisions you may need to make?

What will you look out for as triggers or signposts that will help you make a better choice of decision-making style

CHANGE

Review a recent or current large decision that needs to be made or in the current process of making.

How do you know this is the best approach.

What changes might be worth making?

What challenges need to be overcome?

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Why study with Alpha?

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We are thought leaders in instructional and learning journey design and holistic solution architects. We have extensive finance and investments experience combined with skills application to deliver performance improving results. We develop immersive learning environments that maximize time to productivity, support talent retention and added value to improving quality of hires.

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We are focused on mining the embedded organisational intellectual capital for the benefit of the next generation. We create and curate best in class practice gathered from our experience with the leading financial institutions. We design our programmes with the end in mind – what results are you trying to achieve with this intervention? What metrics will we set ourselves to achieve that?

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Quality and innovation, using current market and industry best practices, have made us a trusted partner in delivering dynamic and motivating training for the financial and capital markets. Our programmes are generation proof and responsive to evolving learner needs and styles. Our solutions use a multi-stakeholder engagement strategy that expands beyond relationships between the learner and learning provider. We create connections with managers, peers and the wider business to drive impactful return on investment..

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