Making good decisions is aguably the most important strategic asset any organizationa can have. In times when other companies are struggling as they experience difficulty due to past bad decisions, those companies who were diligent in nurturing and developing their decision making capability as a strategic asset reap the benefits and excel.

To upskill the decision making capability of key decision makers is often the best investment you can make to ensure that your company remains viable and thrive in the future.  Van Thinking offers a variety of services in this field.  This includes

A more detailed discussion of each of these follows below:

Decision Making approaches

We focus on enhancing decision making skills by providing the neccessary background knowledge on the various approaches to organizational decision making.  It is important to understand what decision making approaches there are and what their respective strengths and weaknesses are.  This enables decision makers to know beforehand what weaknesses they build into the organization when they make specific decisions.  This facilitates a better decision risk profile for the organization as a whole, as well as for the individual decision makers.  It helps them to be more appropriate in managing decision making and the implementation of decisions.  This knowledge is applied practically to gain an understanding of the decision dynamics of your company.

Decision Making Responsibilities and Decision Making Styles

We are able to assist you in assessing what the required decision making responsibilities of a post are, and then to identify gaps in the decision making skills and competencies of the person in the post.  We can then use this to supply the necessary training, coaching or mentoring in decision making skills to bridge this gap, so as to remove unproductive decision patterns and establish a healthy decision making capability in the organization.

Decision Making and Problem Solving Skills

Each person has a preferred problem solving style.  This is closely related to how we make decisions.  After all, we largely make decisions to solve problems and solve problems to make better decisions.  We offer services to identify what your key decision makers' problem solving preferences are and how that influence their decision making.  We also provide services on how to bridge the gap between these two, once again with the view to enhance your organizational decision making.

Group Decision Making and Group Objectives

It is necessary to compile groups with decision making responsibilities by not only taking into account their relevant expertise and experience, but also to ensure a decision making capability that is appropriate for the objectives the group has to reach.  Failing to do this might cause very costly failures, but will at least cause a loss of potential value that could have been be unlocked by good and appropriate group decision making.

Short Courses and Group Training

We offer a variety of possibilities for you to make use of our expertise for in-house training of key personnel.  We have standard 1 day, 2 day and week courses available, but are also open to discuss your specific requirements and provide you with customized training. Decision Making is often neglected as a core competency and a strategic asset, and yet your company's future very much depends on making good decisions now.

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