Decision Making For Leaders: Personal Effectiveness

Frameworks for Understanding Unconscious Biases, Emotional Intelligence, and Decision Making Processes in the Workplace

What you'll learn

An Overview of the Major Unconscious Biases that Affect Decision Makers

What are Biases and How Do They Work

How to Identify and Prevent Biases in Your Own Thinking

Some Strategies for Eliminating Biases from Your Team's Decisions

An Overview of Emotional Intelligence (EI) and its Role in Leadership

The Five Elements of EI

Why an Emotionally Intelligent Leader Makes Better Decisions

An Overview of the Leadership Decision Making Process

The Leadership Triangle - A Model of Decisions and Decision Makers

The Pitfalls of Making Decisions Out of Your Decision Making Level

Exercises in Decision Making

Requirements

Some Experience in Business is Helpful

Description

In this third installment in our Decision Making series on Udemy, Decision Making for Leaders: Personal Effectiveness dives into three key topics for today's business and manufacturing leaders:Understanding Unconscious BiasesEmotional Intelligence and LeadershipThe Leadership Triangle, a model of the decision making processA strong foundation in each of these areas will expand your decision making acumen, help you to become a better organizational leader, and prepare you for the next step in your career.  In the section titled "Understanding Unconscious Biases", we cover the major issues of unconscious biases, what they are, and how they affect our decision making. By developing a skill for identifying these biases and building safeguards into your decision making processes, you can advance your organization toward a clearer trajectory. In the section titled "Emotional Intelligence and Leadership", you will learn the importance of understanding emotional intelligence (abbreviated "EI") in making decisions and how today's best leaders learn this critical set of skills. EI is the ability to perceive, interpret, and demonstrate emotions to effectively communicate and relate with others. And its consistent use not only helps build a stronger team, it also helps build a better life.  And in the final section titled "The Leadership Triangle", you will take a dive into the decision making process. The Leadership Triangle is a three-layered model where decision types are classified by cost, risk, and duration. By understanding the dynamics of each layer and who in your organization is best qualified to make decisions at each, your organization becomes more efficient and more effective. When you sign up, you get:20 video lecturesHigh-quality content to take your career to the next levelThe entire .pdf slide deckLifetime access to all the materialsAccess to the instructors through Udemy with your questions and commentsLow-cost accessSo you have everything to gain and nothing to lose. If you want to learn additional tools for thinking at a higher level, then this is for you!! This is designed for career professionals who want to sharpen their skills and keep learning new ways of solving complex problems. If that sounds like you, SIGN UP!!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction to the Course

Lecture 2 Course Slides

Lecture 3 What Are Unconscious Biases?

Lecture 4 Major Types of Biases

Lecture 5 Preventing Biases in Your Thinking

Lecture 6 An Introduction to Emotional Intelligence

Lecture 7 Understanding the Importance of Emotional Intelligence

Lecture 8 Leaders and Leadership

Lecture 9 The Literature on Emotional Intelligence

Lecture 10 Five Elements of Emotional Intelligence

Lecture 11 Skills versus Values Matrix

Lecture 12 Closing Thoughts on Emotional Intelligence

Lecture 13 The Who and What of Decision Making

Lecture 14 Introduction to the Leadership Triangle

Lecture 15 A Historical Case Study

Lecture 16 Understanding the Model

Lecture 17 Exercises in Decision Making

Lecture 18 The Leader's Role in Decision Making

Lecture 19 Summary on the Leadership Triangle

Lecture 20 Conclusion to the Course

Lecture 21 Bonus Lecture

Business Leaders, and those aspiring to become business leaders,Manufacturing Managers, Production Supervisors,Quality Engineers, Industrial Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers,Engineering Managers, Maintenance Managers, Business Executives