Introduction to Decision Framing for Project Management

Disciplines
Business & Management
Category
Intermediate - Prerequisite Training or Skill
Format
Classroom • Live Online 
Available
Public • Private 

Who Should Attend

Project managers, team leads, development planners, economists, and professionals working major capital projects or complex decisions in their areas of responsibility.

Description

This highly interactive 1-day course introduces the concept of decision quality and teaches decision framing skills to ensure that teams operate efficiently to enable informed decisions on their projects and opportunities. The goal is for attendees to become comfortable framing different types of decision problems, from the simple to the complex. Participants learn a structured workflow, thought process and toolset to take a room full of issues, with a group of people, or individually, and make perfect sense of it: define and focus the problem, identify key decisions and critical uncertainties, prioritize decisions, build viable alternative plans, qualitatively assess options, and structure the quantitative evaluation, should that be necessary to achieve clarity of action.

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand how to facilitate the development of a decision frame with key team members and decision makers.
  • Develop a clear Problem Definition.
  • Solicit and categorize relevant issues to identify key decisions and project risks and uncertainties.
  • Define alternative strategies to consider and structure their evaluation.
  • Qualitatively evaluate the options and facilitate a preliminary trade-offs discussion.
  • Understand the path to develop a high-level decision roadmap.

Course Content

  • Introduction to Decision Quality
  • Clear Problem Definitions
  • Soliciting and categorizing relevant issues to understand the decision landscape
  • Prioritizing decisions in a Decision Hierarchy
  • Strategy Tables to build a menu of options and develop viable alternative plans
  • Qualitatively assessing alternatives and mining for insight
  • Presenting and communicating frames to leadership to support informed decision-making

Instructor
Ellen Coopersmith, Ray Spence
Venue
SCA Training Center - Houston
Cost
$1,450.00
Date(s)
January 28, 2025