This course provides you with the knowledge, skills and tools needed to create an organisational environment conducive to decisions that are consistently aligned with your agency's objectives & maximise the probability of achieiving good outcomes

Investment: $440.00 inc GST.

10% discount! for VET PD Series subscribers - Use your discount code when registering.

8 hours in duration. 

What we cover...

The material presented in this course is designed to support four key learning outcomes.

By the end of this course, it is anticipated that you will be able to:

 Approach future decisions with an understanding of what constitutes a high-quality decision

 Identify a range of individual and organisational biases that can negatively impact upon organisational decision quality

 Help to create a culture of strategic decision-making in your organisation

 Improve your organisation’s capacity to respond to complex organisational and analytical challenges

 Improve your individual performance and add value to your organisation by consistently making better decisions

What participants' say

Nicholls Consulting’s decision-making courses are consistently the best in our evaluation measures
Alice Wilkin, Manager Research and Evaluation Manager, IPAA Victoria

Nicholls Consulting Services opened our minds to a number of new and novel concepts and different ways of approaching wicked problems.
Brett Smith, CEO, Cradle Coast Authority, Tasmania

Thought provoking and inspiring. This course equipped me with practical skills and insights which I have not gained from other programs. I am confident that I will be able to apply this knowledge immediately in my role as an executive reporting to a board.
Aaron Bawden, Registrar, Victorian Pharmacy Authority

Still, why should I invest in this training?

Put simply, decison-making is the only thing over which you have any control. And yet, it is something that you probably haven’t been trained how to do. While our strategic decision training is likely to help you to make better decisions for many years to come, if it helps you to get only one major personal or professional decision right (or avoid getting one major decision wrong), it will have paid for itself many times over. And with well over 90% of participants surveyed saying that our courses provided them with knowledge, skills and tools needed to make better decisions, you can rest assured that learning how to make good decisions is likely to be one of the best investments you’ll ever make.

About the Facilitator

Dr. Seth Nicholls is a policy and decision strategist and the Director of Nicholls Consulting Services. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Nicholls has worked extensively in academia (as a lecturer in international relations, political science and public policy); as well as in state and federal government (as a principal policy and project officer) and as a consultant to the Victorian, New South Wales, South Australian, Tasmanian and Northern Territory public sectors.

Dr. Nicholls’ work has been published in high quality, peer reviewed journals and he holds a PhD in political economy and public policy (with a research focus on obstacles to the development of effective policy initiatives) from the University of Adelaide. Dr. Nicholls is also a graduate of Stanford University’s Strategic Decision and Risk Management Program.

Seth is passionate about helping individuals achieve their goals through a better understanding of decision-making processes and has a strong desire to help organisations in the public, private and non-government sectors effectively respond to a wide variety of complex problems. For more information on Dr. Nicholls’ background, go to LinkedIn.

 A Statement of Completion is available on completion of course activities.