This half-day workshop was designed for senior managers in a tech company. It gives leaders a diagnostic for any significant decision, built around the six elements of decision quality: the right frame, genuine alternatives, relevant information, clear values and trade-offs, sound reasoning, and a real commitment to act. A decision is only as strong as its weakest link — and leaders consistently overlook the same one.

The program also addresses two of the most expensive failures in organisational decision-making. The first is not knowing who actually decides — the meeting with eight people and no clear owner, where everyone defers and nothing moves. The second is the social pressure to nod — the tendency of smart groups to surface fewer risks than they should. The pre-mortem breaks that pattern, surfacing around thirty percent more risks than standard analysis by giving explicit permission to voice doubt.

The session closes with a live simulation — a high-stakes, time-pressured decision in an unfamiliar context — where participants apply every tool from the day before committing to a real decision of their own.