Problem Solving and Decision Making

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Transform challenges into opportunities—develop structured thinking and smart choices.

This comprehensive 5‑day programme equips professionals with advanced problem-solving and decision-making frameworks. You’ll learn to define issues, analyze root causes, generate creative options, and implement structured solutions—with live practice sessions, real-world scenarios, and peer collaboration.

❗ Why this course is important

• Decisions shape outcomes: Effective, structured decision-making is key to leadership success and organisational performance.

• Avoid common traps: Biases, assumptions, and heuristic thinking often lead to suboptimal results—this course teaches how to mitigate them.

• Drive innovation and clarity: Combining creative analysis with logical evaluation fosters better solutions and stronger team alignment.

🎯 Who should attend

• Managers, project leaders, and team supervisors making strategic or operational decisions

• Business analysts and consultants tackling complex, cross-functional problems

• Process improvement and operational excellence professionals

• Anyone aiming to strengthen critical thinking, creativity, and decision-making rigor in their role

🧭 What you will learn

Over five interactive days, delegates will:

1. Differentiate decision-making vs problem-solving – Explore how each process works and when to apply systematic thinking

2. Unpack the 7-step problem-solving cycle – Define the real problem, establish scope, conduct root-cause analysis, and choose the best solution

3. Identify barriers to sound reasoning – Recognise bias, mental shortcuts, emotional triggers, and assumptions

4. Master critical thinking structures – Apply clarity, relevance, logic, precision, and fairness in analysis

5. Apply problem-definition tools – Craft clear problem statements and develop issue trees

6. Use creative ideation techniques – Practice divergent and convergent thinking, brainstorm, and use SIT methods

7. Evaluate options analytically – Employ decision matrices, decision trees, rankings, sequencing, timelines, and probability

8. Build decision frameworks – Use structured thinking to document rationale, assess alternatives, and control quality

9. Practice real-world scenarios – Apply frameworks and tools in group case challenges with peer review and reflection

🌟 What participants say

Steven, Project Manager – Construction
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5/5)
“I learned the seven-step problem-solving model and found the root-cause exercises really useful. I especially enjoyed using decision matrices, and I plan to lead a more structured decision workshop in our next project risk review.”

Fatima, Business Analyst – Finance
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5/5)
“Understanding the difference between intuitive and analytical decisions was eye-opening. The creative ideation sessions were valuable, and I’ll now use decision trees when evaluating vendor proposals.”

Michael, Operations Lead – Manufacturing
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5/5)
“I discovered how to spot and remove bias in our team’s thinking. I enjoyed the real-world scenario simulations, and I plan to implement a decision-quality checklist in all leadership meetings.”