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Learn how to make better business decisions faster, incur less risk, and gain support for your decisions.
Learn the art and science of business decision-making from leadership trainer and coach Mike Figliuolo. Mike outlines the four styles of decision making—autocratic, participatory, democratic, and consensual—and reveals which styles are best suited for specific situations. Recognizing that ambiguity is a part of any decision-making process,...
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Learn how to make quality decisions with impact. Find the data and tools to support your decision, communicate decisions effectively, and lead your organization through change.
Making executive decisions requires making tough choices. The decision to lay people off, halt major projects, or to take your company global all come with a significant amount of risk—both business risk and professional risk. In this course, executive coach Mike Figliuolo...
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There are several common traps into which a decision maker may fall. Learn what they are and how to avoid them.
Have you ever taken too long to make a decision or worried about making the wrong choice? If this sounds familiar, you've experienced falling into a decision-making trap. In this course taught by leadership expert Michael Veltri, he shares his proven tips to help you avoid falling into these traps. First, Michael reviews some of the common...
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The Art Of Personal Decision-Making
"Oh dear decisions, why must you always be so difficult to make in my life?"
Ever hear these voices in your head: "What should I wear today?", "What should I cook for dinner?", "What should I work on for today?” etc.
Well, welcome to earth and the daily grind of life...personal life that is. That's your decision-making at work.
Just about every day, you're going have to make choices that suit your needs and...
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Radically Upgrade Your Thinking & Dramatically Increase Your Success What if there was a way to routinely make smart decisions? What if you could reliably avoid costly mistakes? What if you could remarkably improve your results in all areas of life? Mental trainer and best-selling author Patrik Edblad has helped tens of thousands of readers to think rationally, logically, and effectively. In this audiobook, he lays out a simple, concise, and actionable...
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Learn how to design DEI data requirements into scorecards, and create and analyze DEI data to tell more impactful, compelling stories that drive diversity program outcomes.
As a leader in today’s business world, you’re faced with a variety of complex, critical tasks. One of the most salient is to develop impactful strategies to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. But how do you turn an idea into an everyday practice?...
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Learn to confront cognitive biases and improve your judgment.
Want to make better decisions at work? In this short course, author, innovation expert, and professor Drew Boyd discusses ways to confront our hardwired cognitive biases, in order to make good decisions and exercise more balanced, sound judgment.
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Get the pressure that exists during intense situations to work for you instead of against you. Learn how to make strong business decisions during stressful situations.
By changing how we think about making decisions under pressure, we can remain effective leaders, even during times of crisis. In this course, Becki Saltzman shares how to leverage stress to your advantage, getting the pressure to work for you instead of against you when you need to...
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The language of business
In order to understand how your business is performing right now and to evaluate, assess, and devise new strategies to boost future performance, you need information. Financial statements are a critical source of the information you need.
In direct and simple terms, Richard A. Lambert, Miller-Sherrerd Professor of Accounting at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, demystifies financial statements
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Learn how to use critical analysis to think through all of the potential outcomes and pitfalls so that you can influence or directly make better decisions.
Business analysts and other project professionals are great thinkers, but often are not the decision maker. They need to influence, and they often use their superpowers of critical analysis to help leaders to think through all outcomes and make better decisions. In this course, keynote speaker,...
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Explore the difference between being judgmental and good judgment, and learn about actionable techniques for improving quality decision-making ability.
Join critical thinking and applied curiosity expert Becki Saltzman as she explains the difference between being judgmental and exercising good judgment. This short course is designed for anyone who would like to improve decision-making ability. Learn about how to identify your default judging style,...
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Learn how to use data to draw out powerful conclusions. This course identifies what you need for smart, data-driven decision-making.
Business professionals need to know how to use and understand data today to be successful tomorrow. Instructor Jamie Champagne covers the information, skills, and practices that you need to make smart, fast, and informed business decisions. Jamie explains why data skills are required today, how successful leadership...
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Explore basic topics in everyday personal finance, from insurance, retirement, and investments to money management and credit.
Looking to get a hold of your personal finances, but not sure where to start? Financial planning is just like a puzzle; however, it doesn’t have to cause you stress. In this course, instructor Jasper Smith gives you an overview of the fundamentals of financial planning. Explore the basics of money management, credit, protection,...
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"In a changing world, forecasts and numbers usually represent bogus quantification. Kay and King tell us how to think smarter. Radical uncertainty changes the way we should think about decision-making. For over half a century economics has assumed that people behave rationally by optimizing among well-defined choices. Behavioral economics questioned how far people are rational, pointing to the cognitive biases that seem to describe actual behavior....
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