University of Queensland
Leading with Better Decision-Making
- Delivery: Face to Face
- Duration: Two days
- Course Type: Short Course
- Total Price: $2,640
Strengthen your executive judgement and make wiser decisions under pressure. Explore how cognitive biases, intuition, analysis, ethics and AI can shape your choices – and gain practical tools to navigate risk and uncertainty with confidence.
Course overview
Leaders today face increasingly complex choices, where traditional approaches to decision-making often fall short. Biases, overreliance on data, or pressure can lead to costly missteps.
In this course, you’ll explore the balance between intuition and analysis, uncover strategies to counteract cognitive biases and learn to sharpen your decision-making edge while navigating ethical complexities, which drive insightful and impactful outcomes via highly interactive and practical activities.
This transformative learning experience fuses rational analysis with intuitive intelligence, enabling you to make decisions that are not only effective but are truly wise. As a leader, you will walk away empowered to make holistic and impactful decisions that create lasting organisational value.
Key facts
What you will learn
- Discover your personal decision style by exploring how your habits, biases and mindset shape your leadership decisions.
- Apply decision-making models and techniques to make smarter choices and avoid pitfalls.
- Make courageous, confident decisions by overcoming fear and resistance while navigating risks and uncertainty.
- Leveraging the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for better executive decision-making.
- Communicate executive decisions in a clear and concise manner.
Assessment
There are no formal assessments for this course. However, to obtain a digital badge, you will need to complete an applied learning activity.
Who should attend
- Middle managers and senior managers are looking to strengthen their decision-making skills.
- Human resource professionals and people leaders are responsible for guiding teams and culture.
- Executives and business owners are seeking to make confident, strategic choices.
- Professionals who want to understand cognitive processes and gain practical tools to improve decision-making efficacy.
Entry requirements
There are no entry requirements for this course.
Facilitator
Associate Professor Ali Intezari (Deputy Director, Teaching and Learning, UQ Business School)