Executive Decision Making
Executive Decision Making
About the Program
Every day, executives are called upon to make innumerable decisions – some mundane, some momentous. Some of these decisions will determine the very survival of their businesses or their own careers. The Executive Decision Making program helps participants make decisions that produce better outcomes for themselves and their organizations. Learn how your intuition guides you and about the mind traps that can impair effective decision making. You'll leave with the tools to identify accurate, reliable information to make sound decisions that will position your business for success.
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Program Topics
The Executive Decision Making program curriculum covers the following topics:
- Distinguishing between trivial and vital data
- Experiments vs. observational data
- A/B testing and experimental design
- Balancing the interests of different stakeholders
- Tools for rational decision making
- Thinking through uncertainty and probability
- Assessing risk and reward with expected values
- Using pre-mortems to anticipate and prevent future disasters
- Thinking through complex contingencies
- Applying rational tools in complex organizations
- Biases in judgment and decision making
- Common problems with how people collect, analyze, and interpret data
- Cognitive shortcuts that inhibit the decision-making process
- Short-term thinking that imperils your long-term interests
- Thinking about the larger goals of your business
- Understanding the relationship between sustainability and strategy
- Trading off competing interests
- Anticipating the downstream consequences of your decisions
- Changing habits of mind that aren’t serving you
- Changing dysfunctional organizational routines
- Coaching those with whom you work to help them make better decisions
- How effective decision-making strategies affect the qualities of a good leader
- Applying these lessons in daily life
Who It's For
- New Leaders
- Senior Leaders
- General Managers
- Department Heads
- Directors
- Decisions Makers who impact the success of their functions or organizations
Cost & Features
- Three-day in-person leadership skills and decision-making intensive at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business campus
- World-renowned Berkeley Haas and Executive Education Faculty
- Blend of real-life examples, business case studies, and data from your own company
- Exclusive networking opportunities
- Access to the program alumni community
- Executive Decision Making Certificate of Completion
A UC Berkeley Certificate of Business Excellence gives individuals the opportunity to create a personal plan of study structured by our four academic pillars. Participants will earn a mark of distinction with certification from a world-class university, and enjoy the flexibility of completing the program in up to three years.
"The course content is very engaging and kept me thinking...Once you go through the course, it is difficult not to be very aware of how biases can creep into one's decision-making process at the same time, one is also aware of how other's are being blindsided by their biases."
- Senior Director, Scientific GamesInterested in customizing this program for your organization?
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