Hi William
I have had some good success with executives using materials from Victor
Vroom's decision making model. He has these materials for sale for
training and development purposes. He also is a frequent consultant to
the government at very high executive levels using his model. His e-mail
is
victor.vroom@yale.edu should you want to contact him.
Best,
Bill
Jack Ring wrote:
>William,
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>First, be clear about the differences between decision making by government
>executives and decision making by other executives (the heads of Columbian
>drug cartels, for example). Government executives must honor many more
>"givens" or constraints than do other executives and are more sensitive to
>Type 1 and Type 2 errors than are the "commercial cowboys".
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>Second, be aware that there are two distinct schools of thought about
>decision making. The more prevalent is the "rational thinker" school.
>However, Dr. Gary Klein and associates
www.decisionmaking.com have shown
>that many people arrive at courses of action in a quite different way.
>Executives do some of both so your competency development session should
>cover both.
>
>Interesting sources of courses, besides Dr. Klein, are Kepner Tregoe or Eli
>Goldratt, father of Theory of Constraints. For a course more customized to
>your specific executives you may want to contact Dr. Ed McMahon,
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emcmahon@worldnet.att.net.
>
>I have no business affiliation with any of the parties mentioned above.
>
>Good luck.
>
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>>Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:10:45 -0500
>>From: "Weech, William A" <
WeechWA@state.gov>
>>Subject: Executive Decision Making Training?
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>>I have often felt that I don't really belong on this list, since most list
>>members appear to be academics and I am not. However, I now have challenge
>>that I know many list members will be well-qualified to advise me on. My
>>organization is thinking about creating a course in executive decision
>>making. I'd be interested in hearing about the experiences of others who
>>have been involved in anything similar. I'll post a summary of the
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>comments
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>>I receive to the list, if there is sufficient interest.
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>>Some background may be in order. The idea for this seminar came from a
>>review of our competency model and our training curriculum. Our competency
>>model says that we want leaders with good decision-making skills but our
>>curriculum does not have a course that directly addresses this competency.
>>We notice that some of the organizations we benchmark ourselves against DO
>>have courses in executive decision making. We have not yet asked any real
>>live executives in our organization what they might find useful in this
>>area. If this project moves forward, however, we will certainly will do
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>>organization-specific needs assessment before we design any program.
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>>My questions for those of you who been involved in similar projects
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>>the following:
>>* What were the objectives of your executive decision making training
>>program?
>>* How long was your executive decision making training program?
>>* What models, tools, content, or activities did you cover in the
>>training program?
>>* Some organizations appear to offer decision making for executives
>>and problem solving for everybody else. What's the difference? Does it
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>make
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>>sense to limit a decision making course to executives only? Why or why
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>not?
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>>* What else do you think I should know before I pursue a project to
>>design and deliver a course in decision making for actual executives?
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>>Just to be clear - if we do design and deliver this course, it will be for
>>federal executives - NOT for graduate students in organizational behavior
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>or
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>>management science!
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>>Thanks in advance for any information or ideas you care to share.
>>
>>William A. Weech (
WeechWA@state.gov)
>>Leadership and Management School
>>Foreign Service Institute
>>Intranet:
http://fsiweb.fsi.state.gov
>>Telephone: (703) 302-7198
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