Decision Making for Leaders: Personal Effectiveness

Name: Decision Making for Leaders: Personal Effectiveness
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Frameworks for Understanding Unconscious Biases, Emotional Intelligence, and Decision-Making Processes in the Workplace

Created byRay Harkins, The Manufacturing Academy, Michael J. Vella

Last updated 5/2026

English

What you'll learn

An Overview of the Major Unconscious Biases that Affect Decision Makers
What are Biases and How Do They Work
How to Identify and Prevent Biases in Your Own Thinking
Some Strategies for Eliminating Biases from Your Team's Decisions
An Overview of Emotional Intelligence (EI) and its Role in Leadership
The Five Elements of EI
Why an Emotionally Intelligent Leader Makes Better Decisions
An Overview of the Leadership Decision Making Process
The Leadership Triangle - A Model of Decisions and Decision Makers
The Pitfalls of Making Decisions Out of Your Decision Making Level
Exercises in Decision Making

Course content

1 section • 21 lectures • 1h 52m total length

Introduction to the Course9:47
Explore personal effectiveness in decision making by examining unconscious biases, emotional intelligence, and the leadership triangle, to sharpen leadership skills for high-level decisions.
Course Slides1:25
Explore decision-making approaches and three big ideas for personal effectiveness, using the course slides on unconscious biases as a downloadable resource for growing business leaders.
What Are Unconscious Biases?8:30
Explore unconscious biases in leader decision making, including optimism bias, pessimism bias, and measurement bias, and learn to avoid rose colored glasses.
Major Types of Biases13:49
Preventing Biases in Your Thinking6:55
Recognize that everyone has biases and that acknowledging them improves decision making. Educate yourself on unconscious biases, invite diverse perspectives, and practice humility to prevent biased thinking.
An Introduction to Emotional Intelligence2:41
Explore how emotional intelligence shapes personal and team performance, guided by Daniel Goleman's research, and identify ways to recognize value and grow emotional intelligence for effective leadership.
Understanding the Importance of Emotional Intelligence2:52
Develop leadership decision making by applying the five elements of emotional intelligence to hiring, coaching, and promotions, and recognize how personal behaviors contribute to personal and organizational success.
Leaders and Leadership2:48
The Literature on Emotional Intelligence5:09
Five Elements of Emotional Intelligence10:56
Explore the five elements of emotional intelligence—self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills—and their roles in self-management, relationship management, and leading change.
Skills versus Values Matrix2:44
Closing Thoughts on Emotional Intelligence2:51
The Who and What of Decision Making2:45
Introduction to the Leadership Triangle3:35
A Historical Case Study3:38
Understanding the Model6:04
Exercises in Decision Making5:33
The Leader's Role in Decision Making3:46
Summary on the Leadership Triangle1:21
Conclusion to the Course2:31
Bonus Lecture12:40

Requirements

Some Experience in Business is Helpful

Description

In this third installment in our Decision Making series on Udemy, Decision Making for Leaders: Personal Effectiveness dives into three key topics for today's business and manufacturing leaders:

Understanding Unconscious Biases
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
The Leadership Triangle, a model of the decision making process

A strong foundation in each of these areas will expand your decision making acumen, help you to become a better organizational leader, and prepare you for the next step in your career.

In the section titled "Understanding Unconscious Biases", we cover the major issues of unconscious biases, what they are, and how they affect our decision making. By developing a skill for identifying these biases and building safeguards into your decision making processes, you can advance your organization toward a clearer trajectory.

In the section titled "Emotional Intelligence and Leadership", you will learn the importance of understanding emotional intelligence (abbreviated "EI") in making decisions and how today's best leaders learn this critical set of skills. EI is the ability to perceive, interpret, and demonstrate emotions to effectively communicate and relate with others. And its consistent use not only helps build a stronger team, it also helps build a better life.

And in the final section titled "The Leadership Triangle", you will take a dive into the decision making process. The Leadership Triangle is a three-layered model where decision types are classified by cost, risk, and duration. By understanding the dynamics of each layer and who in your organization is best qualified to make decisions at each, your organization becomes more efficient and more effective.

When you sign up, you get:

20 video lectures
High-quality content to take your career to the next level
The entire .pdf slide deck
Lifetime access to all the materials
Access to the instructors through Udemy with your questions and comments
Low-cost access

So you have everything to gain and nothing to lose. If you want to learn additional tools for thinking at a higher level, then this is for you!! This is designed for career professionals who want to sharpen their skills and keep learning new ways of solving complex problems. If that sounds like you, SIGN UP!!

Who this course is for:

Business Leaders, and those aspiring to become business leaders
Manufacturing Managers, Production Supervisors
Quality Engineers, Industrial Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers
Engineering Managers, Maintenance Managers, Business Executives