Decision-Making Skills for Success: Mastering the Art of Confident and Strategic Choices

Course Description

Do you struggle to make decisions? Or do you worry you’re missing something when you choose a path forward?

Every career move—big or small—boils down to one thing: decision-making. The right choices open doors to growth, leadership, and success. The wrong ones? They can stall your progress or lead you down the wrong path. But what if you could make smarter, more confident decisions every time? Decision-Making Skills for Success: Mastering the Art of Confident and Strategic Choices gives you the tools to cut through uncertainty, weigh risks effectively, and take control of your career like never before. Better decisions lead to better opportunities.

Decision-Making Skills for Success is a self-paced online course that you can take anytime you want. It features eight modules, each about 15 minutes long. And it includes accompanying exercises and worksheets to help you practice what you learn. We draw on experts like John Hammon, Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky and others to help you make the right decisions, whether in your day-to-day work, career journey, or even your personal life.

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8 Video Based Modules

Bite-sized lessons, each 10-20 minutes, so you can learn and apply insights quickly.

2 Hours of Guidance

Expert guidance with practical tips you can immediately put into practice.

14 Worksheets

Worksheets designed to deepen your learning, track your progress, and guide your next steps.

A quick look at what this course is all about

Inside the Course

Module 1

Introduction to the Decision-Making Process

Understand the impact that sound decision-making can have on your day-to-day success and broader career, the types of decisions that we make in professional settings, and the process of sound decision-making.
Module 2

Identifying the Problem

Learn why we often struggle to identify the correct problem when making decisions and how to correctly determine what needs to be decided.
Module 3

Defining Your Objectives

Discuss the strategies for defining the objectives that you want to guide your decision.
Module 4

Assessing Potential Alternatives and Consequences

Consider the strategies that will help you identify alternatives and assess their respective consequences.
Module 5

Identifying and Assessing Compound Decisions

Learn how to make choices in situations where a current decision will affect future ones.
Module 6

Assessing Risk

Review the strategies to assess risk and make sense of uncertainty.
Module 7

Biases & Heuristics

Cover the most common psychological traps we fall into when making decisions.
Module 8

Making the Decision

Explore the instances when we want to test a decision, how to test a decision before we actually make it, and how to iterate it.

Choose Your Level of Support

Choose the amount of support that feels right for you. Learn at your own pace, or add guidance as you put things into practice.

Self-Guided

$29

Access to all program videos
Access to all worksheets

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With Supplemental Career Coaching

$289

Access to all program videos
Access to all worksheets
2 one hour coaching sessions with one of PathWise’s career coaches

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With Supplemental Leadership Coaching

$769

Access to all program videos
Access to all worksheets
2 one hour coaching sessions with one of PathWise’s leadership coaches

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Want Ongoing Support Beyond This Course?

If you’re looking for continued guidance, live support, and access to all PathWise courses, our Plus Membership offers the most long-term value.

Plus Membership

$97/year
  • This course and all PathWise courses
  • Live support 3x weekly through “Ask Us Anything” sessions
  • Private community spaces for every career stage and goal
  • Full Video Library with on-demand how-to videos and PathWise Live sessions
  • On-demand event replays so you never miss a session
  • Content Library with articles, book summaries, frameworks, tools, and templates
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Not sure which path makes the most sense?

Start with what feels right for you — you’ll have immediate access to the course and the option to add support or upgrade later.
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