Decision Making and Problem Solving

Making good decisions:  If you want to lead effectively, you need to be able to make good decisions. If you can learn to do this in a timely and well-considered way, then you can lead your team to spectacular and well-deserved success. However, if you dither or make poor decisions, your team risks failure and your time as a leader will probably be brutally short.

What You Will Benefit

  At the end of this course you will be able to:

• Learn and implement decision making techniques
• Learn and implement problem solving techniques

Learning Modules

• Models of decision making and systems thinking
• Types of decision and models
• Organization as systems
• Making better decisions
• Strategic decision making
• Competitive strategy
• Strategic thinking and analysis
• Tools and techniques of strategy
• Value- based strategic management
• Value- based management
• Searching for a competitive strategy
• Market- driven organizations
• Industry and competitor analysis
• Competitor analysis
• Five forces model
• Strategic groups
• Source of competitive advantage
• Cost analysis
• Value added and brands
• Differentiation and segmentation
• Improving the product
• Capabilities and resources
• Characteristics of difficult problems
• In transparency (lack of clarity of the situation)
• Dynamics (time considerations)
• Problem-solving techniques
• Business problem-solving:

​Training Approach

Your training experience with HOM includes:

• Pre- program assessments to clarify your development needs
• In class highly engaging experiential leaning activities
• Post –program ongoing support through application tool kits and  phone call coaching sessions

​Who should attend?

​ Any individual who wants to be better equipped to face and solve today’s complex business problems by using a foundational process for reasoning and problem solving.