Decision-Making Skills.

Designing a decision-making workshop means organizing decision-making approaches, creating presentations, preparing facilitator guidance and developing realistic decision scenarios.

Oak Innovation’s editable decision-making materials help you establish the course structure while leaving you free to introduce decisions and challenges that reflect your participants’ responsibilities.

Download the course package, adapt the activities to your audience and deliver decision-making training using your own branding.

Want to extend this topic into practical workplace challenges? Our Problem Solving Skills training materials make an excellent companion.

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Who Are These Training Materials For?

Instead of creating slides, exercises, facilitator notes, and participant materials from scratch, you can customize this complete course toolkit with your own branding and examples.

Teach this course toolkit in person, virtually, or as part of a blended learning program.
 

Learning Objectives.

By the end of the course, your participants will:

• Understand and apply a proven six-step decision-making framework.
• Utilize techniques like decision trees and prospective hindsight.
• Navigate uncertainty and risk in decision-making.
• Overcome common decision-making barriers.
• Make smarter, faster strategic decisions.

 

What’s Covered.

1. Decision making skills

• The advantages of better decision making skills.
• Ensuring ownership of decisions.
• How to use available resources to make effective decisions.

2. The main types of decisions?

• The value of different types of decision making available.

3. An effective six-step decision making process

• Practical steps to improving decision making skills.
• Decision making skills.

4. Six decision making techniques

• PMI.
• Decision trees.
• Fault trees.
• Disconfirming questions.
• Prospective hindsight.
• Body frame.

5. Understanding uncertainty and risk

• Key things to consider.

6. Decision making techniques (Part 2)

• Linked decisions.
• Trade-offs.
• The even-swap method.

 

Free Decision-Making Skills Course Preview.

We intentionally use generic backgrounds and titles, so you can easily rebrand and customize everything as your own.

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Frequently Asked Questions.

Who should take Decision Making training?

The course supports managers, team leaders, project professionals and employees who want to make clearer, more confident workplace decisions.

What decision-making skills will participants learn?

Participants learn to define problems, compare options, assess risks and choose practical solutions using a structured approach.

Can the training help teams move from discussion to action?

Yes. It introduces ways to agree priorities, make decisions and follow through, helping teams spend less time debating and more time making progress.

What is included in the training materials?

You get presentation slides, an instructor guide, a participant workbook and practical exercises, with decision frameworks, workplace scenarios and action planning tools.

Can I deliver the course without facilitation experience?

The instructor guide provides step-by-step instructions and discussion prompts to support delivery. You can tailor the scenarios to your audience and adapt activities for online or in-person sessions.

What Trainers Say.

★★★★★ “Speed in responding is phenomenal… Regular updates at no extra cost.” – Jeffrey L. Buller, ATLAS.

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★★★★★ “Feedback from trainers and participants was very positive—huge job done!” – Larina Bichakhchyan, ProCredit Bank.

★★★★★ “Helpful, knowledgeable staff… Solid foundation for training needs.” – Darryl Treadwell.

 

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