Decision-Making: Judgements, Biases, and Nudges

This highly interactive and collaborative online certificate course explores the science behind decision-making to enhance your problem-solving and critical thinking skills. It also equips you with a step-by-step process for formulating clear, unbiased decisions. Using LSE’s proprietary tool – the Decision Canvas™ – you’ll gain the structure necessary to consistently make improved and informed decisions in both your personal and professional capacity.

Learn how to compensate for blind spots in your decision-making process by exploring and interrogating cognitive bias and automatic judgements. By focusing on an informed awareness of debiasing and choice architecture, this course will improve your intuitive decision-making, and prepare you for an increasingly tech-reliant world that requires professionals to use their interpersonal skills to navigate change and uncertainty. 

This course also highlights the critical importance of teamwork and cooperation. By leveraging the diversity, experiences, and insight of your peers, you’ll learn how to review decision challenges from different perspectives and be exposed to alternative solutions. By combining theory with practical studies, you’ll gain a framework to apply in your own context to enhance your decision-making process.

CPD Certified

This course is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service, and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies. The course has an estimated 60 hours of learning.