Critical Thinking and Team Alignment for Better Decisions.
Make better decisions as a team. Participants find the flaws in their own thinking, establish a clear aim, and fix the way their team decides today.
- For
- Leaders and teams who want to go beyond business as usual in how they decide and act.
- Format
- Two days. In person or live virtual.
What it is for.
A team's decisions affect the whole business, yet most teams never look at how they decide. Meetings run without a clear aim, the same thinking traps repeat, and nobody is sure who will act. Analysis is now quick and cheap to produce, including by AI tools, which makes the judgment a team applies to it the part that counts.
Through a series of tasks participants uncover their own flaws as critical thinkers. They practice establishing clarity of aim and using it to align others, apply tools for decision meetings and check-ins, and work with a framework for problem solving and decision making that brings out the interdependencies an action needs. They then work through their team's present decision-making problems and leave with a team action plan.
What you leave with.
- Clarity of aim: how to establish it and align others around it
- Awareness of the flaws in your own thinking, and ways to correct them
- The ability to run effective decision meetings and check-ins
- A framework for giving team members feedback on performance
- A framework for problem solving and decision making
- A team action plan for the decision-making problems you have now
Why it matters.
- Decisions improve when the team sees its own thinking traps
- Alignment with the organization's goals makes accountability possible
- When analysis is instant, the quality of a decision rests on the judgment applied to it
How it runs.
- Self-assessment tools
- Short inputs from the facilitator
- Group activities
- Individual and peer-to-peer assignments