Introduction

In today’s fast-moving business environment, leaders are expected to make high-stakes decisions with speed, clarity, and confidence. Yet many decisions are still shaped by incomplete information, bias, or reactive thinking.

This programme helps leaders strengthen decision quality by combining practical mental models, design thinking, and AI tools such as Gemini and NotebookLM. Through hands-on application, participants will learn how to frame problems more clearly, analyse options more intelligently, and make faster, more defensible decisions without losing human judgment.

Learning Objective

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

•Understand how mental models improve decision quality in leadership contexts.

•Apply six core decision frameworks to strategic, people, product, and operational challenges.

•Use design thinking to reframe problems before making decisions.

•Leverage Gemini and NotebookLM to strengthen research, analysis, and recommendation quality.

•Build more structured, AI-assisted decision workflows for real workplace use.

•Present defensible recommendations supported by sound reasoning, evidence, and AI-assisted analysis.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the programme, participants will be able to:

•Apply six practical mental models to improve leadership judgment.

•Use AI tools more strategically for analysis, synthesis, and decision support.

•Frame problems more effectively before jumping to solutions.

•Evaluate options with greater clarity, speed, and strategic depth.

•Build structured recommendations using both human judgment and AI-assisted reasoning.

•Develop a reusable AI-augmented decision framework for their own leadership context.

Target Audience

This programme is designed for senior and mid-level leaders who are responsible for making strategic, operational, commercial, or people-related decisions, including:

•Department heads and functional leaders

•Senior managers and mid-level managers

•Business unit leaders

•Strategy, operations, HR, product, and marketing leaders

Course Outline

DAY 1

Think Sharper — Mental Models Meet AI

Opening and Framing: Why Smart Leaders Still Make Bad Decisions

Module 1: Mental Models 101 — The Six Frameworks That Matter

Module 2: Reframe Before You Decide — Design Thinking for Leaders

Module 3: NotebookLM as Your Decision Intelligence Engine

Module 4: Scenario Sprint — Strategy and HR Decisions Under Pressure

Day 1 Wrap-Up: Decision Audit and Preview of Day 2

DAY 2

Decide Faster — AI-Augmented Decision Workflows

Opening and Recap: From Models to Moves

Module 5: Product and Marketing Decisions — Build vs Buy vs Partner

Module 6: Finance and Operations Decisions — Beyond the Numbers

Module 7: Prompt Mastery — Context Engineering for Better Decisions

Capstone Team Challenge: AI-Augmented Leadership Decision Sprint

Methodology

•Interactive facilitation

•Hands-on AI labs

•Team decision sprints

•Scenario-based application

•Guided reflection

•Capstone team challenge

•Presentation and board-style defence