Effective Strategy Execution in Our Hypercompetitive World

  Dr. John Austin

Dr. David Lei Dr. John Austin is a Faculty Member and Senior Consultant for Decision Strategies International (DSI). Prior to joining DSI, He helped launch two companies based on his research, Aptient Research and Training, and YourWebView, LLC. He has been on the faculty at Penn State University's Smeal College of Business and at The University of Washington. He's also taught Executives at The Wharton School and Duke Corporate Education.

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Time Allocation - Topics

25% Decision framing

• "Mental frames" that define issues

• Frame control through better problem definition
• Avoiding judgment and perception traps
• Surfacing hidden assumptions
20% Creative problem solving
• Factors for individual creativity
• Techniques for creativity enhancement
• Factors for organizational creativity and innovation
20% Gathering intelligence
• Recognizing your own informational and judgmental limitations
• Traps that lead to faulty intelligence, inferior solutions and false predictions
• Specific steps to improve information gathering and intelligence
20% Coming to conclusions
• Coming to sound, timely conclusions, alone or in groups
• Testing the quality of the solutions or accuracy of predictions before you bet on them
• Preventing "groupthink" and other group decision errors
15% Learning from feedback
• Transforming experience into decision learning
• Why a decision succeeds or fails
• Self-serving explanations

Seminar Description

High quality decisions have always been essential for strong business performance. Yet with the increasing speed, complexity and data availability in today's competitive environment, superior decision skills are more important than ever. This workshop will help you improve your decision-making skills by offering behavioral insights into how people actually think and make decisions. It then teaches the advanced critical thinking skills and creative strategies needed to manage unfamiliar, highly complex problems or decisions that involve significant uncertainty.

 

Guide to Participant Selection

Department Admin Distrib Engr Finc H.R. Legal Mktng IT Opr Plng Pchsg R&D Sales
Senior Executive 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2  
General Manager 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1  
Middle Managers 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1  
Managers
& Leaders
2 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 3 3 3 3  

APPLICABILITY
"1" indicates primary target audience.
"2" indicates a good fit if the level of material is appropriate.
"3" indicates (in the opinion of the institute and the faculty) very limited applicability.

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Last Updated 03/18/14