Overview
What you will learn
The key benefits of the Strategic Decision-Making for Leaders course offered by University of Cambridge are:
- Improve the quality of your decision-making.
- Discover how to manage “unknown unknowns” and “Black Swans” – unpredictable events with potentially severe consequences.
- Apply behavioural insights to influence social dynamics in your organisation.
- Learn to make strategic decisions in a competitive market environment.
- Understand and apply practical tools and techniques designed to improve the quality of your decision making at each level.
- Equip your senior managers and leadership team to make better strategic decisions.
- Position your organisation to utilise tools like Judo and Nudge strategies more effectively.
- Ensure your organisation can compete in a competitive marketplace.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Individual level of decision making
- Understand the standard approaches to decision-making and learn to cope with uncertainty.
- Use practical reasoning strategies and de-biasing techniques to improve strategic decision-making.
- Adopt approaches to deal with “unknown unknowns” and “Black Swans”.
- Group and organisational level of decision making
- Learn about the social character of human intelligence.
- Understand the essence of culture as social learning.
- Explore how to guide culture.
- Identify a small number of key social dynamics and influence them in ways that positively affect groups and organisations when making decisions.
- The market level of decision making
- Understand the importance of strategic intelligence in a competitive marketplace.
- Succeed in a competitive market environment using tools such as judo strategy.
- Apply behavioural insights to influence people using tools such as nudge strategies.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 3 days
Start dates & application deadlines
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Disciplines
Strategic Management Leadership View 194 other Short Courses in Leadership in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Student insurance
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- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
Strategic Decision-Making for Leaders is for:
- senior to mid-level leaders of major corporations and public policy making bodies
- senior leaders of small and medium-sized enterprises
- startup founders.
Tuition Fee
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International
3968 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 3968 GBP for the full programme during 3 days. -
National
3968 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 3968 GBP for the full programme during 3 days.
Living costs for Cambridge
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.