Implementing and Evaluating a Decision: Replaced


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Overview/Description
This content is replaced by the course "Decision Making: Implementation and Evaluation" , Course ID: pd_04_a05_bs_enus. You've made your decision after careful and considered thought. The deal is done, right? Not really. Your decision, no matter how considered and creative, won't walk out on its own two legs and implement itself. It's time to nurture your decided course of action and then evaluate its effectiveness. This course will help you do just that. And you'll do it in a way that will better ensure the success of your present decision and those decisions yet to come. After all, no decision is an island: You need to build on past achievements as well as learn from previous mistakes. In this course, you'll first explore how to act on your decision in a way that optimizes its chances for acceptance and success. Once your plan is underway, you'll also know how to manage that decision so that your effective results don't wither on the vine. Lastly, you'll find out how to evaluate the soundness of your decision so that related business methods can be refined and enhanced in the future. By establishing this feedback loop for success, you'll better reach your goals, reduce wasted time and money, and avoid much worry and regret.

Target Audience
Executives, managers, supervisors, team leaders, and other business professionals who want to enhance their ability to solve business problems and make effective personal and organizational decisions

Expected Duration (hours)
3.0

Lesson Objectives

Planning the Action

  • identify benefits of effective implementation planning.
  • identify three basic implementation strategies.
  • identify the steps to create a force-field analysis.
  • analyze the use of a force-field analysis within a given business scenario.
  • identify the steps to constructing a grass-roots analysis diagram.
  • analyze the effectiveness of a grass-roots analysis diagram used in a business scenario.
  • Managing the Action

  • recognize the value of successfully managing the implementation of a business decision.
  • analyze the effectiveness of strategies applied to involve stakeholders in the implementation of a business decision.
  • identify valid strategies for effectively coping with adjustments during decision implementation.
  • apply strategies to manage resistance to a business decision.
  • Evaluating the Action

  • recognize benefits of constantly evaluating business decisions.
  • identify ways to assess a decision outcome.
  • analyze the effectiveness of strategies used in a business scenario to evaluate a decision outcome.
  • select effective strategies for addressing a failed decision.
  • Course Number:
    PD0235