Led by world renowned instructor Chris Croft, the course combines practical tools with insights from psychology, management, and critical thinking. You'll learn how to avoid common decision-making traps, identify hidden assumptions, gather the right information, evaluate risks, and compare options objectively. You'll also practise many techniques such as stakeholder analysis, decision trees, rating charts, risk analysis, opportunity cost, and how to balance logic with intuition.

Decision Making: A Complete Guide to Better Decisions

Decision Making: A Complete Guide to Better Decisions
This course is part of Decision Making: Complete Guide Specialization

Instructor: Chris Croft
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Apply practical decision-making tools, including decision trees, risk analysis, stakeholder analysis, and rating charts to make better choices.
Recognise cognitive biases, evaluate options objectively, balance logic with intuition, and make confident decisions in complex situations.
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July 2026
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