Making Key Decisions as a Manager
32mIntermediate2021-03-05
Authors

Kevin Eikenberry
Leadership Expert, Author, Speaker, Consultant, Trainer
Course details
As a manager, making decisions is a big part of your job. Chances are you didn’t become a manager because you make bad decisions. But while some decisions are easy, cut-and-dry choices, other decisions demand significant consideration, strategy, and more buy-in from other stakeholders. How do you differentiate the important, key decisions from the others? In this course, management expert Kevin Eikenberry shows how your approach to decision-making affects the results you deliver and impacts a wide array of people and processes. Kevin highlights several types of decision-making approaches, important things to consider when making key decisions, and how to best implement the decisions and communicate your choices to all the necessary parties. By the end of this course, you’ll have a tool kit to help give you more confidence in your decisions, create better results for your organization and team, and improve your chances for success.
Skills covered
Decision-MakingManagement SkillsProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and ManagementDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
Introduction
- Making decisions is part of your job as a manager
Before You Decide
- What is a key decision
- Determining what type of decision you are facing
- What do good decisions look like
Decision-Making Approaches
- Picking a decision-making approach
- Making an independent decision
- Gathering information to make a decision
- Making decisions collaboratively
- Keys to consensus decision-making
Things You Must Consider
- Recognize decision-making trade-offs
- Three factors to consider in your decision-making approach
- What role does trust play in decision-making
Before You Are Finished
- Decision-making Avoiding fear of better option FOBO
- Taking one last look
- Decision-making Communicating your decisions
Conclusion
- Decision-making your team can get behind