Improving Group Decision Making
Managing Groups and Stakeholders
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About This Course
Whatever your role or organization, most professionals must make a decision “now”—followed by another decision “now,” followed by yet another. It is also likely that you need to collaborate with a wide array of people in order to get this decision right.
The blistering pace of decision-making in today’s competitive business environment is enough to make anyone tired. But these very challenges can provide unprecedented opportunity and strategic advantage - if you can embrace the responsibility for making good, fast, frequent group decisions, and if you can do so better than your competitors.
This Learning Sprint helps teams to:
- Understand why a sound decision-making process will yield more consistently favorable outcomes over time
- Mitigate common pitfalls that impact groups while making decisions
- Identify and map stakeholders’ roles, power, and position in order to manage them more effectively
- Write an action plan to manage an upcoming group decision
Expert Faculty

John Austin
Professor, Leadership Studies, Fielding Graduate University
Course Features
100% Online Course Platform
30 Minutes Per Day
Leadership Coaching
World-Class Expert Teaching
Community of Practice
What You Will Learn
Analyze and manage personal and organizational frames that guide your decisions and learn how to manage those frames
Better use of data and management of bias
Put in place a process for learning from successes and failures
What You Will Do
Understand why a sound decision-making process will yield more consistently favorable outcomes over time
Learn how to mitigate common pitfalls that impact groups while making decisions
Identify and map your stakeholders’ roles, power, and positions in order to manage them more effectively
Course Overview
Day One
FOUNDATIONS OF EFFECTIVE DECISION MAKING
- What Is a Quality Decision?
- A Four-Stage Process for Decision-Making
- The Process, The People & Courage
Day Two
GUARDING THE PROCESS
- To Manage Group Decision-Making, You Need a Process
- A Toxic Group Decision
- Addressing Endless Debate
- Going Deeper: Nominal Group Technique
Day Three
CHOOSING AND MANAGING THE PEOPLE
- A Past Experience
- Are You Responsible,
Accountable,
Consulted or Informed - Plan for An Upcoming
Decision, Part 2
Day Four
HAVING THE COURAGE
- The Dangers of Herd Mentality
- The Courage to Confront Groupthink
- Plan for An Upcoming Decision, Part 3
Day Five
INTERACTIVE CAPSTONE
- Options include Video Response, Online Discussion, or Live Event
- Cohort members and expert(s) exchange ideas about content significance, application, and follow through
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