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How To Make Better, Faster Decisions At Work (Udemy.com)

Learn science-based skills to defeat biases, boost performance, gain confidence and become a better leader!

Created by: Erik Larson

Last updated October 2025

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What you will learn

  • Use practical, scientifically-proven tips to make better, faster team decisions at work.
  • Increase awareness of common decision biases and how to reduce their effects.
  • Efficiently include broad input from the right people in team decisions.
  • Communicate decisions clearly to build buy-in and accountability.
  • Assess your team’s decision practices against benchmarks to diagnose gaps and make “tipping-point” improvements.
  • Improve your entire decision process, from analysis and team input to communicating decisions and tracking results.

How it compares

Against the other 1,107 rated Udemy courses in Personal Development on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 20% of them
  • Reviews10,856#37 of 1,108 by number of reviews
  • Length1.1 hoursshorter than 83% of them
  • Last updatedOctober 2025more recently than 58% of them

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Course Description

This fun and practical course is the only management training with research-based tips and skills to help leaders like you make better, faster decisions at work.

The numbers don’t lie:

Decision-making is the most important part of your job. Decision-making drives 95% of business performance and 50% of employee engagement.

There is a huge opportunity for improvement! The most effective decision-makers make better decisions 92% of the time, and they do it twice as fast with half as many meetings.

Better decision-making skills will accelerate your career. Over 98% of managers fail to follow decision best practices, so get ready to join the top 2%!

It’s hard to make better, faster decisions. There are no shortcuts. But the practices are easy to learn. This course will:

  • Boost your decision IQ with fascinating stories, statistics, and tools.

  • Share practical, proven tips for making faster, better decisions.

  • Open awareness of decision biases and how to reduce their effects.

  • Give you practical exercises and assessments to hone your skills.

  • Look beyond the magic moment of deciding to the entire decision cycle.

The course is designed for managers and leaders looking to up-level their performance at work, including project managers, program managers, IT managers, engineering managers, product managers, marketing managers, and similar roles.

Defeat biases. Boost performance. Gain confidence. Become a better leader. Join the decision revolution!

CPE (Continuing Professional Education)

Learning Objectives

  1. Define the importance and impact of improving decision practices.

  2. Name common individual and group biases that affect decisions.

  3. Determine strategies to mitigate common individual and team decision biases.

  4. Identify the seven steps of the decision making process to improve decision practices.

  5. Explain best practices related to each of the seven steps in the decision-making process.

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Instructor Details

Erik Larson

Erik Larson is an MIT rocket scientist, Harvard MBA, decorated U.S. Air Force Captain, former Silicon Valley executive at Adobe and entrepreneurial CEO with almost 30 years of leadership experience.

Erik has been immersed in the science and practicalities of business decision making for the past seven years while founding Cloverpop, a startup that helps companies improve and keep track of decision-making in Microsoft Teams and Slack. He has performed hundreds of experiments and analyzed tens of thousands of business decisions with researchers at Stanford and elsewhere to understand -- and fix -- decision making at work.

His insights have been published around the world and featured in Harvard Business Review. A frequent speaker and writer on the business impact of behavioral science and decision-making, Erik is passionate about how the decision revolution impacts business leadership and curious about how our brains create our minds, our minds perceive our world, and our world becomes what we decide.

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Reviews

4.4

10,856 ratings on Udemy

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By Travis Williams on 9/23/2026

It was a good match but the time to take was very inaccurate. Course time was 1 hour but it took that long just to do the role playing exercises.

By Obinna Nwabuko-Umesi on 9/8/2026

It was a very wonderful experience, and a leap forward in CPE. So much to learn and put into practice in our various fields of endeavour. Thanks for this opportunity. God bless you!

By Kevin Smith on 7/22/2026

This would score very highly if I calculated new ideas and tips per minute, and stand well above most online courses I've taken.

By Felix Akpoghene Imodo on 7/9/2026

It is fit for purpose. My current role required me to make better decision in terms of parts purchase, equipment leasing and product sourcing etc. Taking this course has shaped my thinking process to know when to act at every given time.

By Zaria Vuksan on 6/19/2026

Good course! Very informative and well laid out. My recommendation is take notes of any statistics because those statistics are regularly used on the quizzes.

By Connie Sawyer on 4/27/2026

The presenter is very interesting, easy to understand, and presents the material in a clear and easy-to-follow way. I am enjoying the class so far and I’m learning a lot.

By Gokhan Ozen on 3/22/2026

Karar verme konusuna farklı bir perspektiften bakmak verimli oldu.

By Evangelos Asimakopoulos on 2/12/2026

I like the AI training as I think it is very useful. My only recommendation is to emphasize that the decisions with the numbers will be repeated to have the expected outcome otherwise choosing the safest option could be a very valid option.

By Peter Nelson on 2/5/2026

I definitely found some great take aways to use in future scenarios. I did not like or "do well" with the role-playing sections having never participated in something like that before.

By Rhonda Johnson on 11/10/2025

Good course, but the last quiz was quite annoying. It took several attempts and I basically had to rewatch the whole course to get what your questions were referencing.

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Overall Score : 88 / 100