The Challenge
Organizational decision making is often slow, disempowering, and ineffective – which directly impacts your speed, innovation, and employee engagement.
How We Help
We’ll help you make faster, better, more inclusive decisions with custom practices and mindsets that efficiently incorporate the diverse wisdom of your team. You’ll learn how to define the decision, delegate decision ownership, integrate different perspectives, clearly communicate to stakeholders, and much more.
Results
Intentional decision-making drives innovation, inclusion, and speed throughout the organization. We’ve supported leaders and teams across industries in optimizing their decision-making methods to reduce bureaucracy, empower frontline team members, and better navigate uncertainty.
What It Looks Like
Design Custom Playbook
Customize and codify decision-making practices to support full-scale rollout
Partner With Leaders
Discuss and integrate business needs, and model practices that support big decisions
Train Coaches
Build the capacity of internal coaches to practice and teach decision-making methods
Coach Teams
Facilitate decision-making practices in real time to improve existing teams and projects
Curious about Empowered Decision Making?
It was a perfect recipe. August truly took a human-centered design approach to improve decision making at Autodesk. You brought deep, deep expertise in decision-making practices and localized it to Autodesk specific needs. It came together in such a way that it enabled us to be truly effective.
VP Global Head of Culture, Diversity and Belonging, Autodesk
Culture Transformation
Team Design & Coaching
Leadership Development
Equity & Inclusion
Agile Team Design & Launches
Internal DEI Coaching
VP Global Head of Culture, Diversity and Belonging, Autodesk
Thanks to August’s support our latest survey showed strong improvement in decision making. For the question I’m empowered to make decisions that enable me to do my job effectively, our scores improved 11 points. That’s statistically significant and it shows that the work we’re putting into decision making is making a difference.
VP of Organizational Effectiveness and Talent Management, PacificLife
Culture Transformation
Team Design & Coaching
Leadership Development
Equity & Inclusion
Agile Team Design & Launches
Internal DEI Coaching
VP of Organizational Effectiveness and Talent Management, PacificLife
Our company culture relies on transparency and accountability. It was important for every team member to understand how decisions are made and how they can take initiative in the workplace. I'm thrilled that we have the tools to make that happen.
CEO,Pivot Energy
Culture Transformation
Team Design & Coaching
Leadership Development
Equity & Inclusion
Agile Team Design & Launches
Internal DEI Coaching
CEO,Pivot Energy
Empowered Decision Making Solves These Challenges
We overanalyze to the point of inaction
• RACI is broken! (and confusing!)
• We get stuck in endless rounds of approval
• Decisions lack clarity and ownership
• We're too nice, and we don't move forward until everyone agrees
• Dissenting opinions bring everything to a halt
Get Your Starter Stack
Get Your Starter Stack
What's included:
- How to define the decision and clarify ownership
- Choose the right decision method
- Learn the Advice and Consent methods
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