Decision Making

We are interested in helping managers learn to use 3 to 4 different decision-making strategies AND to
help them teach decision making to their direct reports.

This means that the inventory of decision-making methods must be organized to make easy the choice
of decision method.

Criteria for picking a particular method of decision making:

 Complexity of problem
 cost of being wrong also known as a pre mortem
 number of people to be consulted
 level of impact of outcome
 mental cost and time to make the decision, including time of other people
 appropriateness for me to make the decision, i.e. could one of my people make it? Should we
even be worrying about this?
 advantages and disadvantages of having a direct report or some of our team members make the
decision instead of Maine?
 Teachability of the decision-making method

Products from the research

Training modules and materials

Webinar

Short articles

One lengthy article for publication that could include interviews.