Business Strategy

Strategic Decision Making

This practical and highly interactive program will help you understand and use tools and frameworks to evaluate your strategic options, develop your strategies and improve the quality of your decision making.

Overview

The first part of the program we'll show you how to develop strategy from first principles using a combination of approaches including Top Down Thinking approaches used by Strategy Consultancies for specific strategic problems as well as logical, creative and emergency approaches to developing business strategy. We bring these strategic frameworks to life, teaching you how to evaluate the external environment to identify options and select the best one. In this practical and highly interactive program, you'll learn how personal interests can pose challenges in the decision-making process – and not only how to diagnose the influence of bias, but also counterbalance its effects. Real examples and multiple case studies throughout will demonstrate the models and prepare you to apply them in your workplace. With simulations, you'll practice developing innovative new strategies and making decisions as a team under pressure. The program also shares research approaches developed by the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre in the field of strategic decision-making and provides participants with frameworks and techniques to help them to recognize red flag warning signs and sources of bias to adjust their approach to decision making and enable better quality decisions and outcomes to be realized.

Is this program for you?

This program is designed for high-potential to mid-level managers who want to understand how best to structure and execute a strategic decision. It is particularly well-suited to managers who find themselves involved in determining strategy or those who work in a strategy or policy development role within private, voluntary, or public sector organizations.

Upcoming dates

Virtual

Ashridge, UK

26th February 2024£4,800

3 daysexcl. VAT

Virtual

Ashridge, UK

5th February 2025£4,800

3 daysexcl. VAT

+44 20 3318 6437

Learning outcomes

Understand the difference between strategic and operational thinking

Master a strategic toolkit and understand which tools to use at different stages and in different contexts to develop strategy

Manage the decision-making process using the most effective techniques and frameworks

Identify threats and challenges to decision making

Develop a common language and toolkit within your organization to tackle threats and take advantage of opportunities

Virtual

We deliver programs through a combination of self-study content and live virtual sessions with breakout rooms, simulations, and role-playing workshops. Participants are constantly invited to take part in the conversation, making the experience highly engaging.

Find a schedule that fits

Our programs are scheduled so you can fit in learning sessions around professional and personal obligations.

Apply learnings immediately

The flexibility of our online programs enables you to remain connected to their workplace throughout the program. As a result, learnings can be applied almost immediately between sessions.

Course Duration

Multiple sessions spread over the course of 3 weeks, totalling up to 5 full days of learning

Delivered by renowned faculty and mentors

The faculty of our programs have been handpicked based on their business experience, achievements, and reputations. They work with learners on a one-on-one basis to help them hone unique skillsets and personality traits to feel empowered to spur change. They don’t just teach – they inspire and guide learners through the rigorous course material and bring it to life by sharing examples from their own experiences in different sectors.

Brian Worsfold

Faculty

Jo Whitehead

Faculty

Paul Griffith

Faculty

Frequently asked questions

This program is hosted online, though we can host it in other formats for closed cohorts.

We offer a variety of delivery methods. If you wish to book multiple participants onto a program we can tailor the delivery method to fit your organization's needs. If you'd like to explore other options, please call our team on +44 203 318 6437

We run this program regularly throughout the year. To book in on the next available course or enquire into future dates, please call us or fill out our form below.

To ensure every participant gets the absolute most out of their chosen program, we incorporate experiential learning experiences where possible, providing learners with case studies and simulations to help contextualize and enable putting the course content into practice after the program has finished.

Follow-up assessments are offered and there is a 2-hour application webinar to support participants with the application of learning which occurs 6 to 8 weeks after the end of the program.

We also offer 30-minute 1-to-1s either as part of the program or as follow-up sessions shortly after completion of the live session. Where more than 1 participant attends from an organization we often provide 1-hour customized group sessions instead. There are videos on Leadership lLve and papers to read before starting the program which provides the academic theory and best practice behind the key frameworks and models used in the program. Prework should take around 2 hours. Participants are also given a copy of the book “What is Strategy” by Jo Whitehead as a resource to accompany the program.

Before each course begins, we ask participants to complete some self assessments to identify growth areas and track progress throughout the course. After the course is completed, participants will have access to all of Leadership Live's courses, webinars, live sessions and assessments for 6 months as part of the program.

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