Leadership & Decision Making
The mechanics of good judgment — how experienced leaders decide when the answer isn't obvious.
Course overview
This course treats leadership as a decision-making discipline rather than a personality style. Through recorded case discussions and live decision simulations, you will build a repeatable process for deciding well under pressure, ambiguity, and incomplete information.
What you’ll learn
- Apply a repeatable process to ambiguous decisions
- Separate the decision from the person defending it
- Lead a team through disagreement toward a real decision
- Recognize your own decision-making blind spots
Curriculum
5 chapters · 15 lessons · 6h 15m
Why good people still make poor decisions.
- Judgment as a learnable skill15m
- Common failure patterns in team decisions17m
- Live session: cohort kickoff and case introduction40m
A repeatable process for ambiguous decisions.
- Separating the decision from the deciders16m
- Structuring a decision under incomplete information19m
- Live session: decision framework workshop45m
Leading a team through disagreement.
- Surfacing disagreement early and safely17m
- Live session: contested-decision simulation55m
Recognizing your own blind spots.
- Common personal decision-making biases16m
- Building a personal decision checklist14m
- Live session: peer feedback on decision cases45m
Lead a full decision simulation from ambiguity to commitment.
- Project brief: a contested resourcing decision9m
- Live session: final decision simulation50m
Requirements
- Some experience leading a team or project
- Availability for live cohort decision simulations
Who this is for
- New managers building a decision-making foundation
- Team leads facing frequent ambiguous trade-offs
- Senior individual contributors moving into leadership
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