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Decision Toolkit for Coaches and Counselors

4.7

(3 ratings)

2 Days

Cohort-based Course

Learn frameworks and tools that help you coach others to the right decision

Decision Toolkit for Coaches and Counselors

4.7

(3 ratings)

2 Days

Cohort-based Course

Learn frameworks and tools that help you coach others to the right decision

Hosted by

Michelle Florendo

Stanford trained Decision Engineer and Executive Coach

Michelle Florendo

Stanford trained Decision Engineer and Executive Coach

Course overview

Help others make decisions with less stress and more clarity

A pro-con list just doesn't cut it for the big, important decisions where people want your support.

Equip yourself with a toolkit that will enable you to help others untangle the most complex decisions.

Who is this course for

Career coaches interested in learning decision making frameworks that have been successfully used with hundreds of clients.

University career counselors or advisors who want tools that will help them support others in their life/career decision making.

Business and leadership coaches looking for concepts and tools they can use to help their clients with strategic business decisions

Career coaches interested in learning decision making frameworks that have been successfully used with hundreds of clients.

University career counselors or advisors who want tools that will help them support others in their life/career decision making.

Business and leadership coaches looking for concepts and tools they can use to help their clients with strategic business decisions

You'll learn how to support your clients to

Appropriately frame their decision

Analyze a decision using the decision hierarchy and circles of influence to determine what is the best frame and scope for the decision at hand

Learn a Structured Approach to Decision Making

Identify the three components of every decision, so you know where to start and where to focus with a client

Decipher Emotional Data

Understand what your clients emotions are pointing to; help them differentiate when they should be set aside and when they should be incorporated into their decision model

Get Clear on What Matters

Use the Pro-Con List With A Twist method to help a client articulate their objectives in a way that helps them make a decision with confidence

Develop a Plan of Action, Even When They Don't Have All the Info They Want

Help clients determine where to focus when faced with uncertainties and unknowns, and avoid analysis paralysis

See what people are saying about what Michelle teaches

This course was exactly what I needed to level up my coaching around decision-making. I came away with both a stronger theoretical understanding of decision-making and tactical frameworks that I found myself immediately able to use in my coaching sessions.

Sara T.

Founder of Pathways to Parenthood, ICF Certified Coach

This course was incredibly engaging and I am really excited to integrate these tools in my everyday work. Although I've read a lot about decision making and career development, Michelle's course is the most impactful resource that shapes my practice and approach to coaching.

Amanda S.

Senior Academic & Career Coach at the University of Minnesota

Michelle helped me redesign the decision-making content for our Designing Your Life course at Stanford, and the material that Michelle helped us incorporate is consistently named as one of the most valuable parts of the course on our evaluations. I strongly recommend Michelle as a collaborator, speaker, and decision-making expert.

John A.

Former Fellow, Stanford Life Design Lab

I found that the tools from Michelle's Stanford class, unlike many other decision engineering classes, cover both the qualitative and the quantitative aspects of decision making. Michelle's tools have made their way into my decision process at the work-place and are so useful that I find myself applying it to personal situations as well.

Anja L.

Leadership Coach for Women in Tech

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Meet your instructor

Michelle Florendo

@TheDecisionGeek

Michelle is a decision engineer and executive coach for Type-A professionals.

With an engineering degree from Stanford and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, she has spent the past 10+ years showing hundreds of students and professionals how to use the principles of decision engineering to grow their impact and find fulfillment.

Michelle teaches a business decision making course for Stanford Continuing Studies, helped redesign the decision making curriculum for Stanford's famous Design Your Life course, is a founding member of the Forbes Coaches Council, and spent several years as a Senior Coach at Management Leadership for Tomorrow. She also hosts the podcast, Ask A Decision Engineer.

Michelle has almost 2000 hours of coaching under her belt and is certified with the International Coaching Federation at the PCC level. She helps train individuals in coaching skills as a faculty coach at Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute and adjunct faculty at New Ventures West.

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Learning is better with cohorts

Active, not passive

This course focuses on live workshops and hands-on projects

Learn with a cohort of peers

You’ll be learning in public through breakout rooms and an engaged community

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