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3-Hour Virtual Sprint
Some Common Decision Traps... and How to Avoid Them
with Dr. Roch Parayre
Date Nov 14, 2001
Time
Format Live on Zoom
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Overview
With the increasing speed, complexity and data availability in today's competitive environment, superior decision skills are more important than ever. This workshop will help you improve your decision making skills by offering behavioral insights into how people actually think and make decisions. It then teaches the advanced critical thinking skills and creative strategies needed to manage unfamiliar, highly complex problems or decisions that involve significant uncertainty.
High quality decisions have always been essential for strong business performance. Yet with the increasing speed, complexity and data availability in today's competitive environment, superior decision skills are more important than ever. This workshop will help you improve your decision making skills by offering behavioral insights into how people actually think and make decisions. It then teaches the advanced critical thinking skills and creative strategies needed to manage unfamiliar, highly complex problems or decisions that involve significant uncertainty. It offers strategies on how managers and executives can deal more effectively with ambiguous information, loosely structured problems, deep uncertainty, and complex tradeoffs. The focus is on critical thinking, breakthrough problem solving, learning and the effective use of groups.


Topics Covered
Decision framing • "Mental frames" that define issues • Frame control through better problem definition • Avoiding judgment and perception traps • Surfacing hidden assumptions Creative problem solving • Factors for individual creativity • Techniques for creativity enhancement • Factors for organizational creativity and innovation Gathering intelligence • Recognizing your own informational and judgmental limitations • Traps that lead to faulty intelligence, inferior solutions and false predictions • Specific steps to improve information gathering and intelligence Coming to conclusions • Coming to sound, timely conclusions, alone or in groups • Testing the quality of the solutions or accuracy of predictions before you bet on them • Preventing "groupthink" and other group decision errors Learning from feedback • Transforming experience into decision learning • Why a decision succeeds or fails • Self-serving explanations

About Our Expert
Dr. Roch Parayre
DR. ROCH PARAYRE
DR. ROCH PARAYRE is a Senior Fellow in the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He teaches in executive education programs at the Wharton School, at CEDEP (at INSEAD) in France, and at the Cox School of Business at SMU in Dallas. He has consulted and given executive education seminars on 4 continents, on the topics of decision making, scenario planning, creativity and innovation, and strategy. Dr. Parayre is also Managing Director and a scenario planning expert with Decision Strategies International Inc. His client list includes 3Com, Abbott Laboratories, American Airlines, Brunswick Corporation, Cargill, Citgo, EDS, Johnson & Johnson, Lucent Technologies, Marathon Oil, MCI, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, and others. He was previously on the faculty at the Cox School of Business at SMU, where he won numerous MBA teaching awards. He holds a Ph.D. in business strategy from the University of British Columbia, a Master's degree in decision analysis from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree in operations research and mathematics from the University of Ottawa.
Program Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Delivery Method: Group Internet Based (Zoom platform)
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None
Field of Study: Personal Development
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