Decision making

Get the know-how you need to become more financially confident. Participate more fully in your organisation’s financial discussions, decisions and planning.

 What’s covered?

 How to analyse financial statements and assess financial risk
 The impact of different methods of costing
 The...

Wits Business School

Finance for Non-Financial Managers

Improve your executive committee board leadership and decision-making skills.

Navigating boardroom dynamics and clearly understanding the role each board member plays is vital to the success and effectiveness of a board.

This programme has arisen out of the recognition that there is a critical...

GIBS Business School

Board Leadership Programme

Acquire the tools and frameworks of behavioural economics to build market share, enhance profitability, and generate long term wealth for all stakeholders.

This programme is for business leaders who wish to harness behavioural economics principles and the latest developments in strategic...

Behavioural Economics: Tools for Driving Market Share and Profitability

The New Managers’ Development Programme (NMDP) focuses on developing the skills and knowledge of a newly appointed manager, to further enhance management and leadership abilities. With this essential management training, managers will gain the confidence and capabilities required to respond...

University of Stellenbosch Business School

New Managers’ Development Programme (NMDP)

This new five-day certificate course is designed to provide managers (or aspiring managers) with a sound set of skills required to effectively manage and lead people at supervisory or first line manager level.

 What’s covered

 Effective problem solving skills
 Effective interpersonal...

Managing and Leading People

The Master Class in Scenario Planning, presented in association with the Institute for Futures Research (IFR), offers stimulating and critical thinking opportunities, in which to address various business challenges by making use of future scenario planning methodologies. After completing this...

Scenario Planning

Obtain essential skills to lead AI and predictive analytic projects for business impact.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has created a new competitive pressure that is not always understood by business leaders. The broader field of AI is unsystematic and scattered with concepts, approaches,...

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms for Business Value

Grow your leadership competence in challenging economic and political contexts.
At the heart of business success lies a clear and well-communicated strategy. A sound strategy is one that is based on good choices about how a firm will compete in the future, how it will serve its chosen market and...

Strategy Bootcamp With Professor Nick Binedell

Everyone makes decisions, but are those strategic decisions? This course discusses decision-making from a strategic perspective that helps organizations gain and sustain a competitive advantage and create value. Physician leaders in the course will have an opportunity to examine their methods and...

American Association for Physician Leadership

Strategic Decision Making

Harvard DCE

Behavioral Decision Making

Think Strategically and Make Better Decisions

Many executives report that making decisions is one of their biggest professional challenges. This workshop examines the art and science of strategic decision making. Learn how to identify the most strategically important dimensions on which to...

Sauder School of Business

Every day as a manager, you’re asked to make choices. Some bigger and more public than others, but they all add up. Over time it is your decision-making track record that establishes your reputation and impacts the future of your organization.

Is decision-making an art or a science? The truth...

Smith School of Business

Managerial Decision-Making

Decisions can make or break organizations. High-level strategic choices and daily operational decisions influence our work landscapes and performance outcomes. Often, our decisions are made without enough information and with the added complexity of human agendas and preferences. It is no wonder...

Opus College of Business

Decision Making and Execution

Financial Decision-Making for Managers offers students the opportunity to acquire the financial knowledge and skills needed to succeed in today’s fast-paced business environment.

The course takes on a very practical approach to understanding and applying fundamental learning objectives to your...

IE Business School

Financial Decision Making for Managers

Physician leaders cannot dismiss the importance of finance in strategic decision making. Consequently, applying financial principles can aid the process and result in improved patient care. Become a stronger physician leader by understanding how to apply flexible budgeting and alternative...

Advanced Financial Decision Making

Understand the ways in which your mind, personality, and social structures can degrade your decision-making.

The human mind isn’t wired to make high-quality decisions. Because of how our minds work, errors and pitfalls keep us and our colleagues from making decisions that add the most value....

McCombs School of Business

Human Biases in Decision Making

Achieve success by effectively diagnosing a decision situation, designing a clear approach, facilitating communication, and presenting compelling rationale to key stakeholders.

Complex decisions, often involving many parties in disagreement, need leaders who can guide a team to a timely,...

Leading Strategic Decision-Making

Data-Driven Decision Making for Managers

A hands-on approach to enhancing your negotiation and collaboration capabilities, equipping you to drive better outcomes in challenging one-on-one and multi-party situations.

Rarely are important business decisions made independently. Significant opportunities require working with, and through,...

Negotiation and Collaborative Decision-Making

While strategy is often crafted in the corner suite, its successful execution and ultimate impact depends on incremental decisions made throughout an organization on an ongoing basis. As such, organizational performance often reflects the cumulative effect of actions taken by many departments at...

Weatherhead School of Management

Strategic Decision Making and Execution

Western Ontario University

Problem-solving, Decision-Making and Creativity

Harvard Business School

Changing the Game: Negotiation and Competitive Decision–Making

Gain the skills and knowledge needed to navigate the economic side of health care. Become familiar with the basic principles of finance and understand the documents that reveal the fiscal health of an organization. By the end of the course, physician leaders will have covered strategies for...

Principles of Financial Decision Making - Online

Translate Data Into Actionable Business Insights

Nearly every business and organization today is extremely dependent on data. Modern data analytics combines powerful software tools and statistical techniques to produce insights that can improve results in every field and organizational...

UW Professional & Continuing Education

Techniques for Decision Making - Certificate in Data Analytics

Creating value is the central task for any executive. To generate value, managers need to be able to assess the financial impact of their decisions, which in turn requires an understanding of financial analysis techniques and valuation methods. Financial Analysis and Valuation for Strategic...

Columbia Business School

Financial Analysis and Valuation for Strategic Decision Making

Now more than ever from baseball to politics and from supply chain to marketing, data analytics is helping decision makers understand information can be used to design and deploy superior strategies that produce superior results. Managers and leaders from all levels of the organization need to...

Bauer College of Business

Data Analytics for Decision-Making and Problem-Solving for Executives and Managers

Improve your understanding of financial management and how to use financial statements to improve your decision making. 
Decisions employees make daily in business often have a notable impact on the organisation's financial standing.

However, many people do not understand the importance of...

As organizations become increasingly fast-paced and complex, leaders are tasked with making more decisions, more quickly while still considering the impact on their employees, teams, and organizations. Effective leaders apply critical thinking skills holistically to make countless decisions each...

Management Concepts

Decision Making

Strategy and Planning for Effective Operations

In this focused program, you’ll take a proven, interdisciplinary approach — incorporating management, strategy, marketing and decision sciences — to designing and managing your supply chain. Guided by senior Kellogg faculty experts, you and your...

Kellogg School of Management

Supply Chain Management

The ability to make effective and timely decisions is an essential skill for successful executives. Mastery of this skill influences all aspects of day-to-day operations as well as strategic planning. In this course, developed by Professor Robert Bloomfield, Ph.D. of Cornell University’s Johnson...

School of Hotel Administration

Summary statistics are one way to forecast uncertain outcomes, and the statistical results can be used to make decisions or guide strategy. Since summary statistics are based on a data sample, they typically inform intuitive decision-making. That is, the model requires interpretation which relies...

Implementing Scientific Decision Making

Sound business strategy requires robust data. However, raw data can only go so far without effective interpretation and analysis to inform decision-making. You will apply a data-driven process to decision-making while considering both the larger business context around risk and uncertainty and...

Data-Driven Decision Making

Women face unique challenges in the workplace but they also add unique value and perspective. They shatter groupthink, improve communications dynamics, and reinvigorate companies in ways that make them more competitive. Research shows companies with a critical mass of top-team gender diversity...

Yale School of Management

Women’s Leadership Program

Ivey Business School

Analytics Fundamentals for Managers

Leadership & Strategy in the Age of Disruption delves into the various challenges leaders are faced with in a business climate marked by uncertainty, complexity and technological disruption. Leaders are now being challenged to use visionary thinking, make insightful strategic decisions, and guide...

Leadership and Strategy in the age of Disruption

Get powerful problem-solving skills to more successfully reason through business problems

Today, it's everyone’s job to effectively solve problems. Analytical thinking and problem solving are foundational thinking skills that involve breaking things down into their component parts. They also...

American Management Association

Analytical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making

The nonprofit world is changing fast. While competition for donors and clients heats up, organizations are being asked to focus on results. Because of this, demand is high in the nonprofit sector for financial leadership.

The Financial Success for Nonprofits Certificate prepares nonprofit...

eCornell

Financial Success for Nonprofits

Dynamic Design for an Interconnected World

Creating business value through data science

Previously Named: Leading with Big Data and Analytics

Leveraging big data, business analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver solutions to complex challenges is not solely the responsibility of technology and data science...

Leading With Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Well-constructed and well-managed teams are a necessity in today's work environment, and organizational success relies upon the ability to both create and lead high-performance teams. This three-day program designed for executives in leadership positions or on the cusp of assuming leadership...

Developing and Leading High-Performance Teams

Are you fluent in the language of business? Do you understand the tradeoffs between risk and return? Interpret your organizations financial statements and understand how your decisions affect those numbers.

Apply analytic skills to make informed decisions and interpret your company’s liquidity...

Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers

Understanding the numbers only gets you so far… it’s how you apply information that matters. Create a plan to use your organization’s capital strategically.

Recognize how value is created in your firm. Evaluate opportunities and assess competition based on robust financial analysis to outperform...

Financial Strategies for Value Creation

Further build your leadership and management competencies to thrive in a world of gender equity challenges.

Leadership: Does gender matter? Gender shouldn’t matter, but in reality only 5% of CEOs in Africa are women (McKinsey & Company Women Matter Africa Report, 2016).

Although there has been...

Women as Leaders

Artificial Intelligence is taking the world by storm. From self-driving cars to health biometrics - from predictive equipment failure to Netflix algorithms - the impact of AI is rippling across an expanding range of industries.

Why now?

If your organization isn’t working on a plan, it risks...

Artificial Intelligence: Strategic Implications for Business

Most self-proclaimed Excel users actually use less than 10% of a spreadsheet’s analytical capability. Spreadsheets are tremendously powerful tools. With them, you can manipulate complex data to supply the information you need to make critical business decisions. This course will enhance your...

University at Buffalo School of Management

Introduction to Data Modeling Using Excel

Business intelligence is a discipline that relies on ready access to a huge volume of stored data in well-structured databases. In this three-course certificate program, you’ll learn how to build and manage the databases and infrastructure for your organization’s business intelligence...

Certificate in Business Intelligence & Database Development

Strategic management is essential for all leaders and managers to accomplish their goals. Fundamentals of Strategic Management is designed to update your understanding of what is important in strategic thinking.

In the course, you’ll focus on the key perspectives: corporate strategy, growth...

Aalto University School of Business

Fundamentals of Strategic Management

Whether you are currently involved in financial strategy or want to be, the St. Thomas Finance for Non-Financial Managers program will improve your ability to make sound financial decisions at work.

When terms like ROI, P&L or net present value come up in meetings, do you feel out of your depth?...

Professionals from all sectors are identifying, analyzing, preparing and leveraging data to make smarter decisions on a daily basis. In this course, participants discover the basics of data science through data insights and visualization. Gain real-time guidance, feedback and professional...

Data Science and Visualization for Business

Innovation for Growth explores a framework for making strategic planning more robust amidst an increasingly changing and volatile business environment. As you progress through the course, you will gain insight into the various degrees of leadership that allow innovation to be harnessed and...

Innovation for Growth

Becoming a Leader: Developing Your Style and Making Sound Decisions

A blueprint for avoiding common errors and arriving at sound business decisions

Studies show that half of the decisions made in organizations fail. Intelligent, responsible, well-meaning people with good information routinely make errors in judgment that can have far-reaching and sometimes...

Foster School of Business

Making Critical Decisions

Enjoy this complete introduction for managers, directors and administrators attended by more than 3,000 business leaders.

This seminar has been designed to transform the non-financial manager into a more effective team member who can propose, analyze and evaluate financial decisions in the...

Schulich Executive Learning Centre

What the Non-Financial Manager Needs to Know About Financial and Managerial Accounting

Explore the foundations of decision quality and how to use a rigorous analytic framework to make better decisions in your personal and professional life.

Most of us were never trained how to make good decisions. A primary reason for this seems to be, as we explore in this course, an unfounded...

Decision and Risk Analysis

Data analytics is among today’s fastest-growing and highest-paid professions, as organizations increasingly rely on data to drive strategic business decisions.

This certificate is designed to expand your analytical capabilities and take your strategic decision making to the next level. These...

Data Analytics 360

Columbia Management Essentials (Online) is a three-month online program that teaches the core pillars of management — leading teams, creating a customer-centric organization, and developing financial acumen.

The program enables participants to accelerate their impact through an intensive...

Columbia Management Essentials

Progressing towards greater leadership positions means learning to cut through greater complexity. It means broadening your understanding of the entirety of your business, in order to make the most effective strategic and tactical decisions. Finance is one of the core pillars of any business...

INSEAD Business School

Financial Analysis for Non-Financial Managers

Make sure your first steps as a manager are in the right direction.

 Why choose this programme?
Are you transitioning into management? This programme will provide you with the toolbox you need to succeed as a front-line manager.

You’ll discover how to delegate, plan effectively and manage the...

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