BUS 319 - Decisive Leadership: Navigating Tough Decisions
Course Description
Leaders make thousands of decisions daily, and making practical and quality decisions is a skill to be mastered. Those in leadership positions often grapple with the conventional decision-making process. Making timely choices is particularly challenging when faced with a lack of information and few stakeholders to consult. The ability to make quick decisions is a skill that leaders need in their toolkits, especially when navigating tough decision-making scenarios that challenge them in their role as managers.
Explore actionable tools and strategies to enhance their decision-making. Enhance your leadership role by learning to reach practical and effective outcomes in the face of uncertainty.
Course Details
By the completion of this course, successful students will be able to:
- Identify approaches and strategies to reach practical and effective outcomes in the face of uncertainty
- Recognize the importance and characteristics of decisive leadership and identify the skills and strengths which help leaders to become decisive leaders
- Explore actionable tools and strategies to enhance the decision-making process, inspire teams and be viewed as a competent and reliable leader
- Compare decisive leadership with other leadership models and reflect on how decisive decision-making supports leaders in building credibility and trust among stakeholders, especially in uncertain circumstances
- Create a personalized framework for cultivating decisive leadership skills while balancing the competing interests of stakeholders
Topics:
- Decisive leadership
- Decisive leadership vs. contrasting leadership styles
- Overcoming decision-making pitfalls
- Communicating decisions with confidence
Applies Towards the Following Program(s)
- Certificate for Front Line Leaders : Leading Others - Seminars