High-Impact Decision Making

This Webcast was recorded on June 25, 2008.

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How Strong Leaders Make Tough Decisions

One skill that differentiates great leaders from the rest of us is decision making—especially in situations where the stakes are high.

Like all of us, you make many decisions every day—but when it comes to high-impact decisions, you cannot afford to make errors in judgment. Knowing how to make the right choices in such situations can strongly influence your ability to get ahead in both your career and in life.

But how do you learn to make the right choice?

During the Webcast, you’ll learn about the many pitfalls and traps that we all fall into while making decisions and discover a number of techniques used by successful leaders to make decisions in critical situations.

What You Will Learn:

Luda Kopeikina will reveal an entirely new way of decision making based upon neuroscience, sports performance training research and her work with over 100 CEOs. Join us as we explore:

• Five core practices of successful decision making that separate the best from the rest
• What you can do today to improve your decision making
• Steps you can take to deal with fear and other emotions as you are facing a decision
• When you feel that you are stuck, what you can do to come out of it and make a clear choice
• And much more!

This Webcast is ideal for managers who face decisions that impact other people, projects and their company’s success.

About the Presenter:

Luda Kopeikina is president and CEO of Noventra Corporation—an innovation commercialization firm. Prior to this, Ms. Kopeikina spent six years at General Electric in various senior leadership positions where she had an opportunity to work with Jack Welch and observe his methods in action.

Later she was president and CEO of Celerity Solutions, Inc. Under her leadership, the company executed a complete turnaround in two years and grew six-fold. Interactive Week's Executive Worth Survey ranked Kopeikina within the top 20 CEOs of US high-tech public companies for her performance and total return to shareholders. She is a prominent business speaker and the author of The Right Decision Every Time: How to Reach Clarity on Tough Decisions.

For additional training on this topic, consider these AMA seminars:

• High-Impact Decision Making: Reducing Risks, Maximizing Results
• Managing Chaos: Tools to Set Priorities and Make Decisions under Pressure
• Moving from an Operational Manager to a Strategic Thinker
• Strategy Execution: Getting It Done

To learn more, read these AMACOM Books:

• Making Sense of Strategy, by Tony Manning
• A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher, by William A. Cohen, Ph.D.