Decision Making Courses

About this learning path...

Decision making is the ability of an organization's leaders to effectively make the choices that guide our mission-focused work.

Full participation in this certificate is applicable for 3 points in Category 1.B Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.

What You Will Learn

Some of the factors and elements of decision science, and which approaches relate to our nonprofit work.

How decision-making at the front-line, program, and leadership levels supports the mission of our nonprofit.

Five ways to measure decision-making processes, and four types of decisions we face in our nonprofit work.

How action-planning can support improved decision-making and help select a decision-analysis approach.

How hard data and people data can support our decision-making process.

Identifying four potential ethical dilemmas a decision may pose.

Using decision trees as a means of setting goals to improve decision-making.

Two ways of tracking decisions at the individual and organizational level.

Who is this learning path for?

Everyone! Learning about how we make decisions, and how to improve this process, is a critical capacity for all nonprofit team members to strengthen. If you're someone who has an interest in decision making scenarios, frameworks for ethical decision making, or tracking how to make better choices, then this is the training for you!

This learning path explores the following Korn Ferry competencies: