Create Your Decision Criteria Catalogue

Matthew Brandt (Matty)

Educator, Content Creator and ex-Founder

Decisions made without shared criteria lead to inconsistency and bias

Your organisation either claims to be data-driven or has it written broadly across your internal documentation. Yet, you likely still struggle with inconsistent, slow, or biased decisions. The root problem isn’t a lack of data - you have heaps of it - it’s a lack of clearly defined decision criteria. When teams rely on intuition, implicit and unspoken rules, outcomes vary depending on who is in the room, priorities shift unpredictably, and alignment breaks down.

In this workshop we will tackle that gap directly. By building a structured Decision Criteria Catalogue, you create a shared language for how decisions are evaluated across the organisation. This reduces ambiguity, speeds up decision-making, and makes trade-offs explicit rather than political.

More importantly, over time, your catalogue allows for the creation of a transparent Decision Log, demonstrating the effectiveness of your criteria.

In three hours, you will draft your own Decision Criteria Catalogue, have it challenged by peers, and leave with something practical to take back and implement with your colleagues.

What you’ll learn

Create, refine and deploy your organisation's first decision criteria catalogue, enabling you to increase the quality of decisions.

  • Identify where implicit assumptions, inconsistent evaluation, and unclear priorities affect decisions.

  • Learn to translate business priorities into clear, measurable criteria that can be applied consistently across future decisions.

  • Create a process of how to review, refine, and log decisions so decision criteria are applied consistently over time.

Workshop agenda

  • From Data-Driven to Decision-Centric

    Understand why most organisations struggle with decision quality. You’ll learn the core principles of decision-centric thinking and identify where current decision-making breaks down.

  • Defining Decision Criteria

    Learn how to translate business priorities into clear, reusable decision criteria. You’ll draft your first set of criteria, making implicit assumptions explicit.

  • Building your Criteria Catalogue

    Structure your criteria into a practical, scalable catalogue. You’ll organise, refine, and stress-test your criteria to ensure they are usable, measurable, and aligned with organisational goals.

  • Peer Review & Challenge

    Present your catalogue to other participants and receive direct feedback. You’ll challenge and be challenged, uncovering blind spots and strengthening your approach.

  • From Criteria to Decision Log

    Learn how your catalogue evolves into a transparent Decision Log over time. You’ll understand how to track decisions, evaluate adhesion, and continuously improve decision-making practices.

Learn directly from Matthew

Matthew Brandt (Matty)

Matthew Brandt (Matty)

Educator, Content Creator and ex-Founder with 10+ years in Data Analytics

past students from
PASHA Holding LLC
IU Internationale Hochschule
HWZ Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich
CXL
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Who this workshop is for

  • You lead an analytics team and want decisions to consistently reflect your insights, not just dashboards.

  • You make frequent decisions and want faster, clearer, and more defensible outcomes.

  • You align teams across functions and want consistent, transparent decision-making.

What's included

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Live sessions

Learn directly from Matthew Brandt (Matty) in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Revisit the course content and session recordings whenever you need a refresher. Please note that if only one student attends a live session, it will not be recorded and therefore no recording will be available afterwards.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

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Testimonials

  • I started the workshop having read a few articles on this topic, but really enjoyed the pacing of the discussion, strong visuals, and well constructed exercises. I will be exploring the potential for having a session booked for peers in my career field.

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    DIAC

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