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Description:
Have a decision dilemma? Facing a choice conundrum? Visit the DecisionLab for an experiment in decision science. Workshop leader Eric Olive will guide you through a series of fun, interactive activities designed to elicit your best decision brain.
We’ll help you consider and prioritize the important choices you face and then select one, important decision to work on in our lab. You’ll be privy to the DecisionLab formula that will show you how:
• The subconscious mind drives our decisions, often in an undesirable direction.
• To demystify decision making by becoming an active problem seeker and combating the collective love fest known as group think.
• To forge a path to decision precision by obliterating obstacles to sound decision making.
Don’t let your mind betray you. Join Decision Genius and train your brain to make better decisions again and again.

DecisionLab Overview
Part 1: Impact

A recent case study will illustrate the perils of bad business decisions.

Then, we’ll jump into a short exercise to help prioritize and categorize the most important decisions we face today.

After choosing one decision from the list, we’ll use the DecisionLab toolkit to identify key elements that factor into this decision. Along the way, we’ll learn why we:

Often rush to judgment and the perils therein.
Have a natural tendency to fall in love with our ideas and fail to consider other valid ideas and solutions.
Often ignore signs of trouble when rolling out a new product, strategy, or initiative.

Part 2: The Path to Decision Precision

With key decision factors in place and common barriers to decision making identified, we’ll practice the DecisionLab method as we:

Examine the role a healthy organizational culture plays in sound decision making.
Draw new frames to achieve conceptual clarity while crafting an evidence-based decision-making process.
Review fun, creative examples of effective decisions such as the CEO who fired himself, and why it worked.
Contact Info:
For questions, please contact Harry Webne-Behrman at hwebnebehrman@ohr.wisc.edu
Intended Audience:
UW MANIAC
Instructor Info:
Eric Olive

Bio:
My interest in speaking, teaching, and research began in fifth grade when I found myself enjoying writing and presenting book reports. Weird? Yeah, my friends thought so too, but they still let me play football with them, so it all worked out.

Later, I channeled these passions into research as a MacArthur and then a Mellon fellow while studying and lecturing at Indiana University. Studies were followed by sojourns in France, Spain, and Mexico and then a gig for an alternative newspaper and articles for publications such as Intercom and National Geographic Traveler.

Eric Olive - Decision Genius

Journalism became technical writing and then a career as a user experience (UX) consultant. I am currently a speaker, teacher, writer, and UX consultant with 20 years of industry experience working with clients such as Citi, Roche, Promega, Ernst & Young, Rockwell International, TDS, CUNA Mutual Group, and American Family Insurance.

As serious professionals, we know that simple is hard. At Decision Genius, we don’t promise easy; we promise results based on our practical micro-decision method grounded in the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and decision-making.

We have taught and presented for organizations such as: 3M, FedEx, AbbVie, Visa, Siemens, CVS, State Farm, Vanguard, John Deere, Capital One, Verizon, Thomson Reuters, Wells Fargo, PLATO Learning, Booze Allen Hamilton, The American Family DreamBank, Northwestern University, Marquette University, the Stern School of Business at NYU, United Way, the IRS, Freddie Mac, Mayer Brown LLP, JPMorgan Chase, Authentify Inc., and The Options Clearing Corporation.
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