Dilemmas to Decisions: Acting Wisely When You Need to Think Fast - Andrew Pain Ltd
Master the art of high-pressure decision-making with a strategic toolkit designed to bypass bias, harness your gut, and turn complex dilemmas into decisive action.
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Summary
With 85% of leaders facing decision fatigue, the ability to act promptly without sacrificing wisdom is a critical edge. This session draws on research and lived experience to help you navigate your most difficult professional dilemmas, teaching you how to outmaneuver unconscious bias and use "heuristical" strategies to make high-stakes choices with less stress and more confidence.
Who is it for?
- All employees
- C-suite
- Senior leadership / management
- Early-career / junior employees
- New staters / onboarding
- Remote or hybrid teams
Credentials
Previous clients
- National Highways,
- University of Liverpool,
- The Crown Estate,
- HSBC,
- Specsavers,
- Multiple councils,
- NHS Trusts,
- Colleges and Schools, etc
Reviews
“I worked with Andrew recently to deliver a talk on the importance of community, and right through from the lead up to the event to the delivery, Andrew was proactive in ensuring his presentation was tailored both to our organisation and our audience. His engaging style of delivery brought the best out of our colleagues (even first thing in the morning), and we received many comments that they could have listened to him talk longer, so we’ve already booked him for another talk later this year!”
– Mo Brownridge, Senior Communications Manager at Pernod Ricard Global Travel Retail
Awards
- CPD accredited – Member of the Professional Speaking Association – Member of the International Coaching
- Federation – 25 years’ post-graduate HR experience – podcaster and author
Activity overview
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How do you make considered yet prompt decisions?
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Is it best to use your gut for making big decisions? Your Brain? Or consult with chat GPT?
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How do you know when to play it safe and when to do something audacious?
When 85% of 14,000 organisational leaders say they’re fatigued by the sheer number of decisions they now face and 1/3 of those surveyed said they rely on their gut for decision making, it’s clear that learning how to make better decisions when the pressure is on, remains a crucial skill for leaders and managers in 2026.
Drawing on a wealth of lived experience and research, we’ll explore three common, confusing dilemmas faced by organisational leaders, revealing insights and strategies through each dilemma, to help you make difficult decisions wisely, promptly and with less stress.
Agenda
In this session you will learn:
- Why your gut is both powerful and flawed as a decision-making tool and when to best use it.
- Why unconscious biases undermine good decision-making and the most dangerous biases to look out for, from Sunk Cost Fallacy, Optimism Bias, Confirmation Bias to Tabloid Thinking.
- How to create an Investment Timeline, to prevent you from getting stuck when you don’t know whether to persevere or quit.
- How to navigate your most difficult decisions with minimal stress, and why heuristics enable prompt decision making, whilst protecting you from the flaws in your gut.
- How to create your own heuristical decision making strategy, which can act as your guide when faced with big decisions.
- Why we ignore important issues when we’re under pressure and how to spot problems early, using techniques such as Elephant Spotting and the Pre-Mortem in order to prevent nasty (yet avoidable) shocks.
Locations available
UK Wide - International
Length of session
Flexible, range from 45/60/90
Max capacity
No limit
Cost
