Using Better Managerial Decision Making - to get great results every time

How can you get to your best decisions in both straightforward and complex situations This session is designed to help participants improve the quality and impact of their decisions, analyze and expand their decision-making methods, and identify solutions for on-the-job problems. By using many tools, tips, and techniques you will see how to make effective decisions in both large and small situations. You will also learn how to work most effectively both with individual and group decision-making. Determine what you need to know and do to be a confident decision maker i.e., how to explore options, make choices, move to action, and test the validity of your choices. Through discussion, and using a specific process, find out how to deal with different styles and avoid many pitfalls in the decision-making process

• Discover how to be a more efficient and productive decision-maker
• Identify techniques to make decisions more effectively
• Enhance your mental flexibility by balancing logic and emotion
• Assess and improve individual and team efforts to make decisions
• Learn about potential decision-making traps and how to overcome
• Explore and practice using the 5 Step Decision Making Method

• Find out what you need to know and do to make great decisions
• Learn how to reduce conflict and groupthink
• Identify personal characteristics that inform your idea about what makes a decision right
• See how you can sharpen your analytical and intuitive aspects of decision-making
• Recognize how your feelings impact the way you make decisions
• Master how you can more deliberately apply personal experience to making complex decisions

Anyone with a decision they need to make

Bill specializes in helping businesses improve their results by developing employees and providing tools, tips, and techniques to make better decisions and solve problems more effectively.  His background includes more than twenty years of senior management experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

He has worked with hundreds of individuals as a trainer, facilitator, and consultant to more than 250 major organizations such as AstraZeneca, Bank of America, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, National Grid, NYC-Citywide Administrative Services, Southern Company, Marine Corps/Intelligence School, McGraw Hill, Johnson & Johnson, NY/NJ Port of Authority, Société Générale Bank, Time Inc. the U.S. Mint, and Verizon to develop and improve their employees’ professional and interpersonal skills to increase their management and team effectiveness.

Bill has presented and coordinated workshops at the local, state, national, and international levels He also serves on the faculty of the American Management Association conducting seminars in their Leadership, Communications, and Management practices.

A foundational topic in his practice is Problem Solving where he lays out a road map from his recently published book “The Essential Problem Solver – A Six Step Method for Creating Solutions that Last” to help participants clearly, identify, explore, and find the right solution to their challenges.