The Decision Consulting Workshop, SDG's basic training for its new consultants, is an essential early step in building an internal decision support group. SDG's goal is to help your organization move away from decision-making based on "advocacy" by project champions and toward a more powerful, collaborative Dialogue Decision Process. This workshop teaches the group facilitation and decision analysis skills that SDG's decision consultants use to guide organizations through the challenging tasks of developing winning strategies.
Course Topics:
- Measuring decision quality
- Facilitating Dialogue Decision Process project teams
- Framing decision problems
- Developing creative alternatives
- Building spreadsheet-based decision models
- Interviewing potentially biased experts
- Identifying key sources of value and sources of risk
- Analyzing alternatives
- Using decision analysis software
- Leading decision board dialogues
Who Should Attend
This workshop is beneficial to individuals and teams who are responsible for building their company's internal decision quality capabilities. Many participants attend as part of a corporate team; discounts are available for teams registering at the same time.