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Decisions Under Pressure

Every choice runs on hidden machinery — fast instincts, predictable biases, and the way a question is framed. This programme gives you the frameworks and habits to decide clearly under uncertainty, communicate decisions that stick, and build a team that decides well repeatedly.

📚 5 Modules
~3h 48m
475 XP total
📋 19 Lessons
🏆 Certificate included
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✦ What you'll learn
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Recognise the biases and framing effects that quietly distort judgement
Apply structured frameworks — matrices, expected value, base rates — to complex choices
Decide well under uncertainty using probabilities, premortems and reversibility
Communicate decisions to drive buy-in and build a decision-ready culture
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Course Modules
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Module 1 — How We Make Decisions (and Why We Get It Wrong)
4 lessons  ·  48 min  ·  100 XP
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Before you can decide better, you have to understand the machinery doing the deciding. This module covers the two systems behind every choice, the predictable biases that quietly distort judgement, how the framing of a question changes the answer, and the crucial question of when to trust your gut and when to distrust it.

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The two systems behind every choice
11 min +25 XP
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The biases that quietly distort judgement
12 min +25 XP
3
How framing changes the answer
12 min +25 XP
4
When to trust your gut
13 min +25 XP
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Module 2 — Structured Frameworks for Complex Choices
4 lessons  ·  48 min  ·  100 XP
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Intuition collapses under complexity. This module gives you the structured tools that scale: defining the actual decision and its criteria, weighing options with a decision matrix, putting numbers on uncertainty with expected value, and seeing the hidden cost in every choice — the option you didn't take.

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Defining the decision before you make it
10 min +25 XP
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The decision matrix
12 min +25 XP
3
Expected value: putting numbers on uncertainty
12 min +25 XP
4
Opportunity cost and trade-offs
13 min +25 XP
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Module 3 — Managing Uncertainty and Incomplete Data
4 lessons  ·  48 min  ·  100 XP
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Most real decisions are made without enough information, and waiting for certainty is itself a decision. This module covers thinking in probabilities instead of certainties, anchoring on base rates, stress-testing a plan with a premortem, and the single most useful sorting question in decision-making: is this reversible or not?

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Thinking in probabilities, not certainties
11 min +25 XP
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Base rates: starting from the outside
12 min +25 XP
3
The premortem: imagining failure in advance
12 min +25 XP
4
Reversible vs irreversible decisions
13 min +25 XP
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Module 4 — Communicating Decisions to Drive Buy-in
4 lessons  ·  48 min  ·  100 XP
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A good decision badly communicated fails anyway. This module covers making roles explicit so everyone knows who actually decides, leading with the reasoning rather than the verdict, the discipline of disagree-and-commit, and how transparency about trade-offs builds the trust that makes decisions stick.

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Who actually decides? Making roles explicit
10 min +25 XP
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Leading with the why
12 min +25 XP
3
Disagree and commit
12 min +25 XP
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Transparency and trust
13 min +25 XP
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Module 5 — Building a Decision-Ready Culture
3 lessons  ·  36 min  ·  75 XP
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Individual skill isn't enough if the environment punishes good decisions. This final module is about the conditions that let teams decide well repeatedly: the safety to dissent and be wrong, matching decision speed to decision type, and learning from outcomes without falling into the trap of judging the decision by the result.

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Psychological safety and dissent
12 min +25 XP
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Decision speed and decision hygiene
12 min +25 XP
3
Learning from outcomes without outcome bias
12 min +25 XP
Course includes
📚5 modules
19 lessons
~3h 48m
self-paced
475 XP
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Your instructor
Mia
Learning designer and decision-making specialist. Mia guides you through every lesson — cutting theory to the essentials, adding context, and keeping it practical.
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