Re-think Decision-Making! 💡

ABOUT THE TALK
Join us to shift your thinking about effective participation in decision-making processes.

Decisions in organizations often expend too much energy, lead nowhere or wind up in a dead end. There are many reasons for this, but the root cause is often the same: limiting beliefs. The funny thing is: Most people are not aware of them. It's not that teams or managers deliberately sabotage good decisions. That can happen, but it's the exception rather than the rule. The rule, however, are unconscious mental blocks – limiting assumptions and beliefs – that prevent better decisions.

In this session, you will:
- uncover blind spots in decision-making processes
- understand who should be involved in which role - and who shouldn't
- discover how to uncover the actual need for a decision.

And you'll get two powerful tools to do so in your practice

1. the DECISION HATS playing cards to clarify roles for any (complex) decision-making process.
2. a DECISION CANVAS with powerful questions to clarify the actual need for a decision.

The tools look simple, but have a surprising impact. The tools are created by Frank Habermann, Karen Schmidt, and field-tested by the “Over the Fence” community. Licensed as Creative Commons (CC-BY-CA) International 4.0, all our tools are available for free (https://overthefence.com.de/tools/).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Karen Schmidt, management consultant and sparring partner for leaders & change agents.
With over 20 years of management and consulting experience, Karen asks the right questions to identify blind spots and open up new perspectives. Her fields of expertise: collaborative decision-making, organizational transformation, complex projects, and effective communication in this context.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaschmidt/