The Decision Consulting Workshop (DCW) is an essential step in building or growing an internal decision support group. SDG’s goal is to help your organization move away from decision-making based on “advocacy” by project champions and toward a more powerful, collaborative Dialogue Decision Process. This two-week workshop, SDG’s “basic training” for its own staff, teaches the group facilitation and decision analysis skills that SDG’s decision consultants use to guide organizations toward winning strategies.
Our Offerings
At SDG, we offer training solutions for both individuals and organizations.
On-site Programs & Coaching
SDG’s live-virtual and on-site programs can be customized to your organization’s needs, facilities, and schedule. Our varied curriculum includes executive briefings, training modules, online learning, and pilot decision projects.
Public Courses
Executive Education offers a variety of public courses and workshops designed to build individual capabilities in decision quality, SDG’s decision-making methodology.
Course Topics
Measuring decision quality
Facilitating Dialogue Decision Process project teams
Framing decision problems
Developing creative alternatives
Building spreadsheet-based decision models
Interviewing potentially biased experts
Identifying key sources of value and sources of risk
Analyzing alternatives
Using decision analysis software
Leading decision board dialogues
Software
Participants receive free software for calculating and drawing tornado diagrams, waterfall charts, flying-bar charts, and decision trees. In addition, you will receive a template for creating powerful decision models in Excel and an “Excel function library” that contains many commonly used functions used in decision models. We will also arrange for a trial version of the probabilistic analysis software that we use in the workshop.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is beneficial to individuals and teams who are responsible for building their company’s internal decision quality capabilities. Many participants attend as part of a corporate team; discounts are available for teams registering at the same time.
DCW On Site
A private, in-house session of this program can be tailored to your company’s specific needs. DCW has successfully been offered in a “live-virtual” format, developed for clients who wanted to continue training during pandemic travel restrictions and now a standard format available.
Upcoming Courses
What Students are Saying
“The best approach for obtaining a quick but comprehensive introduction to the disciplines of decision quality, decision analysis, and the dialogue decision process using a case-study format.”
“The instructors delivered insightful, well-organized content, reinforced by case-study exercises.”
“A well-thought-out and practical learning experience that truly challenged me and clearly elucidated the benefits of following a decision process.”
“I loved the analytic section of the training—exactly what I was hoping to learn!”
“A highly professional workshop presented by very knowledgeable people.”
“The workshop was very well-planned and executed. My objective—to learn new tools and apply them to real-world settings—was met!”