Acting Decisively (29 minutes)

• • Whatever your role—whether you're a manager or an individual contributor—acting decisively is a key skill. As a manager, your employees need clarity about your team's overall strategic direction, as well as what you want and expect from them. As an employee, what gets you noticed and recognized is your ability to act and produce results. In this course, career expert Dorie Clark helps you overcome the roadblocks to decisive action, get the information you need, and determine when it's appropriate to act—or conversely, when it's better to hold off until you know more. She also discusses how to find the courage to act decisively under challenging circumstances. 

Improving Your Judgment for Better Decision Making (30 minutes)

• • Join critical thinking and applied curiosity expert Becki Saltzman as she explains the difference between being judgmental and exercising good judgment. This short course is designed for anyone who would like to improve decision-making ability. Learn about how to identify your default judging style, and how to expand that style and make better decisions. Discover a formula for practicing good judgment in challenging situations, when making decisions about the future, and when interacting with others at work. 

Decision-Making in High Stress Situations (36 minutes)

• • By changing how we think about making decisions under pressure, we can remain effective leaders, even during times of crisis. In this course, Becki Saltzman shares how to leverage stress to your advantage, getting the pressure to work for you instead of against you when you need to think of options and determine what to do. She explains how to uncover hidden options, consider potential outcomes, and move forward with making a decision. Find out how to calculate costs, avoid the pitfalls of consensus-driven decisions, and successfully make strong judgment calls. Ultimately, she helps you to prevent stress from becoming the enemy of good decisions. 

Critical Thinking for Better Judgement and Decision-Making (56 minutes)

• • The pace of change and volume of information we encounter in daily life make it hard to think through decisions. Instead, people often rely on biases and rules of thumb, which trap them into drawing faulty conclusions. The most successful teams use critical thinking—objective and rational analysis—to illuminate the wisest conclusions. This course prepares leaders to hone the critical thinking skills of their entire organization. Learn how to upgrade critical thinking to avoid deceiving fallacies, spot misleading cognitive biases, craft better arguments, hone judgment, and improve decision-making. Instructor Becki Saltzman teaches skills that will improve how your company or team innovates, tackles challenges, and responds to change. 

Making Quick Decisions (21 minutes)

• • Decision-making is an essential skill in every industry. The ability to confidently (and quickly) make smart, high-quality decisions can help you excel at a range of tasks, from quashing a disagreement between colleagues to picking a new hire. In this concise course, Dr. Todd Dewett shows you simple steps that can help you make stronger decisions in your professional life. Get practical tips for accurately defining the problem at hand, generating options, collaborating effectively with your team, and making a decision that sticks.

Decision Making Strategies (47 minutes)

• • Learn the art and science of business decision-making from leadership trainer and coach Mike Figliuolo. Mike outlines the four styles of decision making—autocratic, participatory, democratic, and consensual—and reveals which styles are best suited for specific situations. Recognizing that ambiguity is a part of any decision-making process, Mike covers the four types of ambiguity you'll face so that you can recognize what you don't know in order to reduce risk and plan for contingencies. He also presents techniques for involving stakeholders in the decision-making process, and explains how to use a RACI (responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed) matrix.

Executive Decision-Making (50 minutes)

• • Making executive decisions requires making tough choices. The decision to lay people off, halt major projects, or to take your company global all come with a significant amount of risk—both business risk and professional risk. In this course, executive coach Mike Figliuolo explains the difference between executive decision making and day-to-day decision making and shows how to equip yourself so you can make high-quality decisions with far-reaching positive impact.