High-performance Decision Practices

Course #MN4017

Est.imated Completion Time: 3 months

Overview

This advanced course helps the student to master social, psychological, and organizational aspects of successful decision making. The focus is on principles and processes that facilitate effective decision making and support collaborative relations among stakeholders. Students learn and apply these principles at the individual, group, and inter-group levels, experimenting with distinct approaches to decision making and analyzing the usefulness of each approach. The course addresses creativity and brainstorming, cognitive biases and mitigation strategies, ethics in ambiguous situations, group decision dynamics, approaches to improve group decision making, stakeholder analysis, judgment under uncertainty, and development of cooperative solutions.

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Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Understand cognitive biases and mitigate their effects on decision making
Apply rational decision-making processes to problems and opportunities
Explain group decision making models, processes, and principles
Assess and improve decision-making patterns in groups and teams
Lead strategic planning and problem-solving meetings effectively
Build consensus around possible solutions and obtain commitment from stakeholders
Execute thoughtful judgment in complex circumstances that involve inconclusive or contradictory data

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Application Deadlines

08 Jul 2024

Fall Quarter applications due