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Foundations of Effective Decision-Making

Duration: 2 Days | Ideal For: Teams of 8–15 participants

This hands-on, introductory workshop provides a practical foundation for making clear, confident, and well-structured decisions — even in the face of complexity and uncertainty.

Designed for professionals across all functions and levels, this course equips participants with the essential tools, techniques, and mindsets needed to improve the quality and consistency of their decision-making. Whether you're supporting a project team, contributing expertise, or making strategic calls, this course helps you sharpen your thinking, align your team, and move from ambiguity to action.

Participants will learn how to:

  • Identify and avoid common failure modes in decision-making

  • Clarify strategic situations and define clear, actionable objectives

  • Develop and compare creative, high-quality solution alternatives

  • Understand roles and responsibilities within an effective decision process

  • Apply financial and risk-based thinking, including cost of capital, cash flow, and value

  • Use options thinking to better navigate uncertainty

  • Interpret analysis results and facilitate agreement among stakeholders

Interactive casework and collaborative exercises ensure participants walk away with not just knowledge — but the ability to apply it immediately in their roles.

This course is ideal for project team members, subject matter experts, decision-makers, and anyone looking to strengthen their decision-making skills in a practical, results-oriented way.

Advanced Effective Decision-Making

Duration: 5 Days | Ideal For: Decision practitioners, team leads, senior managers, analysts, and project owners

This immersive, five-day course is designed for professionals seeking to become skilled practitioners of structured decision-making and strategy development. Building on the foundational principles of decision quality, Advanced Effective Decision-Making takes participants deep into both the human and analytical aspects of high-stakes decision-making in complex environments.

Through a blend of interactive casework, guided facilitation, and technical instruction, participants will learn to lead decision processes with confidence — from framing the problem to generating insights and aligning stakeholders around a shared path forward.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • Identify and avoid common failure points in strategic decisions

  • Clarify complex decision situations and define high-value objectives

  • Develop and refine creative, feasible solution alternatives

  • Understand and fulfill key roles and responsibilities within the decision process

  • Facilitate cross-functional teams through structured collaboration

  • Apply options thinking and probabilistic modeling (Monte Carlo simulation using Excel® and Crystal Ball®)

  • Conduct qualitative screening and expert interviews to build effective evaluation models

  • Manage project risks, interpret value measures, and support robust trade-off analysis

  • Communicate results and build alignment using tools like value of information/control and hybrid strategies

  • Understand portfolio management principles and apply them to strategic choices

  • Champion and implement decision quality practices within their organization

What Sets This Course Apart:

  • Integrated Skills: Merges facilitative leadership with rigorous analytics

  • Hands-On Practice: Participants apply real-world techniques to relevant case studies

  • Organizational Relevance: Equips future practitioners and leaders to drive better decisions across functions

  • Experienced Instructors: Taught by seasoned consultants who actively use these tools and methods in client work

This course is ideal for those who are responsible for solving complex problems, leading strategic initiatives, or embedding decision quality into their organizations. Participants leave equipped to guide teams, build models, and foster alignment — with tools they can immediately apply to high-impact decisions.

Value of Information and Control

Duration: 1 Day | Ideal For: Project team members, subject matter experts, analysts, and decision makers

This focused, one-day workshop introduces participants to the powerful concepts of Value of Information (VOI) and Value of Control (VOC) — essential tools for enhancing decision quality in uncertain and dynamic environments.

Participants will learn how to evaluate whether new information is worth pursuing, how to adjust decisions based on evolving knowledge, and how their own actions may influence the behavior of others in strategic settings. The course blends foundational theory with practical application, using hands-on exercises and Excel-based tools that participants can immediately apply in their work.

Participants Will Learn To:

  • Understand and construct decision trees to visualize and evaluate uncertainty

  • Apply decision trees to real-world problems involving chance events and outside influences

  • Use Bayesian logic to update probability estimates when new data becomes available

  • Conduct VOI analysis to assess when additional information adds meaningful value

  • Perform VOC analysis to understand how influencing uncertain variables or other decision makers can change strategic outcomes

  • Explore when gathering more data is helpful — and when it’s just a distraction

This course is ideal for professionals who contribute to or evaluate high-stakes decisions and want to make smarter, more informed choices. Whether you're analyzing options, guiding project strategy, or influencing decision-making culture in your organization, Value of Information and Control will sharpen your strategic thinking and elevate your impact.

Probabilistic Modeling

Advanced Excel Techniques & Simulation Using Crystal Ball
Duration: 3 Days | Ideal For: Analysts, modelers, project team members, subject matter experts, and decision makers

This intensive, hands-on workshop equips participants with the skills and tools to build, run, and interpret probabilistic models using Microsoft Excel® and Crystal Ball®. Designed for professionals involved in evaluating complex, uncertain decisions, the course provides a practical foundation in economic modeling, simulation, and advanced Excel techniques — all tailored to real-world decision-making needs.

Participants will move beyond basic spreadsheets to explore how uncertainty, variability, and risk can be effectively modeled and quantified. The course emphasizes not just how to build models, but also how to use them to inform better decisions.

Participants Will Learn To:

  • Apply core principles of decision analysis to model development

  • Use financial metrics accurately and understand how they drive insights

  • Design and build probabilistic simulation models in Excel®

  • Interpret the results of Monte Carlo simulations with clarity and confidence

  • Leverage advanced Excel formulas and functions as a “power user”

  • Conduct effective SME interviews to support model inputs and assumptions

  • Incorporate correlations and time series data for more robust modeling

  • Apply VBA macros to enhance modeling flexibility

  • Use probabilistic analysis for project cost and schedule estimation

Through interactive exercises, real-world examples, and guided instruction, participants will gain the confidence to build and apply probabilistic models that drive deeper understanding and higher-quality decisions.