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Leadership Strategies for Effective Decision-Making in Local Government - Florida Seminar

Join us on August 23, 2019, to enhance decision-making skills crucial for effective leadership in local government. Learn about programmed and nonprogrammed decisions, evaluation methods, timely decision-making, delegation strategies, and decision-making environments. Explore Myers-Briggs attributes and decision-making tools that can optimize decision outcomes. Presented by R. Max Lohman, City Attorney of Palm Beach Gardens and Town Attorney of Lantana.

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Leadership Strategies for Effective Decision-Making in Local Government - Florida Seminar

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  1. Leadership – Cultivating Decision-Making Strategies Florida Local Government Investment Trust Annual Seminar August 23, 2019 R. Max Lohman, Esq. City Attorney City of Palm Beach Gardens Town Attorney Town of Lantana

  2. What is Decision- Making?

  3. Types of Decisions

  4. Programmed Decisions • Basic operating systems, procedures and standard organizational transactions • McDonald’s employees are trained to make the Big Mac according to specific procedures. • Starbucks uses programmed decisions to purchase coffee beans, cups and napkins.

  5. Nonprogrammed Decisions • Involve strategy and organization design, most often made by senior leaders • Decisions about new facilities • Technology solutions • Labor contracts • Legal issues • Managers must treat each one as unique, investing large amounts of time, energy and resources into exploring the situation from all angles. • Intuition and experience are major factors in these decisions.

  6. Why Evaluate Our Decision-Making Effectiveness? • Organizational Effectiveness Depends Upon • Effective decision making • Recognizing bad decisions • Quickly responding to less than optimal decisions • Decision making • most basic and fundamental managerial activity • closely linked with the Planning function • component of Organizing, Leading and Performance Improvement

  7. Timely Decision-Making • Strategic Planning • Project Planning • Timelines • Deadlines • Opportunity Cost • Time Value • Incremental Cost

  8. Considerations in Delegation of Decision-Making Authority

  9. Myers-Briggs Personality Attributes

  10. Myers-Briggs Attribute for Decision- Making

  11. I OPT Assessment Tool

  12. Decision-Making Strategy

  13. Decision-Making Environment

  14. Certainty • Reasonable certainty of alternatives and conditions associated with each alternative • Few organizational decisions made under these conditions • Rare in a complex environment

  15. Risk

  16. Uncertainty • Alternatives, risks, consequences unknown • Most decision making in organizations • Secure as much relevant information as possible • Approach with logic and reason • Intuition, judgment and experience will play major role

  17. Decision-Making Tools

  18. Leadership - Cultivating Decision-Making Strategies R. Max Lohman, Esq. max@lohmanlawgroup.com

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