Executive Decision Making for Healthcare Leaders

Are your decisions dominated by unpredictable or fast-changing conditions, lack of reliable data or information, and/or unconscious biases? As organizations strive to balance the needs of all stakeholders across the healthcare system, shining a lens on the art and science of decision making offers tangible benefits.

Executive Decision Making for Healthcare Leaders is designed by Professor Steve Walton, a leading expert on operational decision making and the impact of leadership on operations outcomes. The program will prepare you to make better decisions by applying a set of processes, strategies, and frameworks that serve as a playbook that you can use in your work environment for immediate impact.

The program will help you:

• Align various types of decisions to decision-making processes.

• Identify how personal and cognitive bias can influence decision making.

• Develop personal strategies to debias decision making and enhance judgment, insight, and creativity.

• Evaluate the role of leadership in improving team-and organization-level decision making.

• Develop a strategy to test for and reduce the impact of bias in healthcare data analytics and algorithms.

The Executive Decision Making for Healthcare Leaders program is ideal for:

Healthcare Administrators and Executives

Learn to manage competing priorities by using a decision-making process designed for complex and uncertain situations, such as those in healthcare. In addition, develop the leadership skills needed to improve judgment, insight, teamwork, and creativity—factors that ultimately impact both patient care and business performance.

Emerging Healthcare Leaders

Build your capacity for managing your projects, teams, and upstream leadership through more confident, result-driven decision making. In additions, learn to identify unconscious biases that exist within yourself and your data—and the strategies to minimize this risk.

Each week, there will be a playbook activity that cultivates the learning concepts and prepares you for the final project. The final assignment is the culmination of the concepts learned during the entire program. You will design a process that is unique to your decision types and also serves as a decision support tool to reference in your professional role. It includes identifying your short-term goals and your one-year vision, performing a risk analysis of mismatched decision types, and identifying biases and creating a strategy to overcome them.

Didn’t find what you were looking for? Write to us at learner.success@emeritus.org or Schedule a call with one of our Program Advisors or call us at +1 585 549 3600 (US) / +44 113 519 1455 (UK) / +65 3138 1545 (SG)