Decision Making for Leaders: Managing Change

Leading with Vigilance, Innovation, Talent, and Precision

Created by: Ray Harkins, The Manufacturing Academy
Senior Manufacturing Professional, Online Educator

Created by: Michael J. Vella
Instructor with the Manufacturing Academy

What Will I Learn?

• The importance of vigilance in business and how to practice it
• Examples of vigilance and non-vigilance in the news
• Ten strategies for improving your own vigilance
• How change is diffused in a culture
• The five factor influencing the rate of change
• Using the diffusion model to improve the results of your project
• The pitfalls of the traditional hiring model
• Why hire for talent
• How to uncover the talents in your prospective team members
• The 8D model as a structured problem-solving approach
• What are each of the 8D's
• How to apply the 8D approach in practice

Requirements

• Basic understanding of business and organizational structure

Target audience

• Current, Future, Potential and Aspiring Leaders and Managers
• Professionals who want to grow in their decision-making and leadership skills
• Engineers, Technicians, Analysts