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Decision Consulting Workshop

The Decision Consulting Workshop (DCW) is an essential step in building or growing 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 two-week workshop, SDG’s “basic training” for its own staff, teaches the group facilitation and decision analysis skills that SDG’s decision consultants use to guide organizations toward winning strategies.

Our Offerings

At SDG, we offer training solutions for both individuals and organizations. 

On-site Programs & Coaching

SDG’s live-virtual and on-site programs can be customized to your organization’s needs, facilities, and schedule. Our varied curriculum includes executive briefings, training modules, online learning, and pilot decision projects.

Public Courses

Executive Education offers a variety of public courses and workshops designed to build individual capabilities in decision quality, SDG’s decision-making methodology.

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

Software

Participants receive free software for calculating and drawing tornado diagrams, waterfall charts, flying-bar charts, and decision trees. In addition, you will receive a template for creating powerful decision models in Excel and an “Excel function library” that contains many commonly used functions used in decision models. We will also arrange for a trial version of the probabilistic analysis software that we use in the workshop.

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.

DCW On Site

A private, in-house session of this program can be tailored to your company’s specific needs. DCW has successfully been offered in a “live-virtual” format, developed for clients who wanted to continue training during pandemic travel restrictions and now a standard format available.

Upcoming Courses

Decision Consulting Workshop

SDG’s two week “boot camp” for decision professionals is an essential step in building or growing an internal decision-support group.

Marcy Conn

Partner, Executive Education Practice Leader

Dr. Eric Bickel

Partner

Henry Nguyen

Executive Education Practice Manager

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