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Decision Coaching in Cancer Treatment

This is a set of slides from a Stanford seminar in November, 2011. The seminar introduced two new roles in cancer treatment: the Cancer Quarterback and the Decision Coach.
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PUBLIC POLICY

Public Decision Making in California: Big Challenges & How They Can Be Met

How the California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative can be used as a model for California to meet its public decision making challenges in a practical, scientifically sound, fair, and transparent way.
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Setting Up for Success in Environmental Decisions: Framing and Distinctions

Tutorial on framing and the decision basis. Examples taken from California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative.
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Designing a Network of Marine Protected Areas for California

After two false starts, the first phase of the California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative was completed successfully on schedule.
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Environmental Decision Making (free publication)

These are the slides from a talk done for graduate students at Stanford University in October, 2010. The talk reviews Dr. Barrager’s career experience in engineering and environmental decision making. Dr. Barrager recommends that we bring more engineering into environmental decision making. This will enable us to move away from advocacy-based negotiation and to move toward collaborative design.
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DECISION COACHING

A New Profession Is Emerging: Decision Coach

These are the slides from a talk Baker Street publisher, Stephen Barrager, did at the recent INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics in Huntington Beach, California.
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Coach’s Guide to the Collaborative Design Process

Making decisions as a team is often is frustrating, inefficient, and not innovative. These 60 slides describe the Collaborative Design Process for making strategic decisions, particularly when many people are involved. Several powerful strategy tools are included.
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Coach’s Guide to the Decision Analysis Process

A companion to the Coach’s Guide to the Collaborative Design Process, this presentation is intended to be used by decision consultants and decision coaches to sell projects and train teams. The process, originally developed by Professor Ron Howard at Stanford University, has been used to help decision makers in many corporations around the world, the military, and at all levels of government.
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Framing Strategic Decisions: an Overview

An introduction to framing concepts for decision coaches and strategic planners. Points covered include a framing checklist, single and double loop learning, and interpersonal framing.
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Interpersonal Skills for Decision Coaches

Survey of current thought leaders: Chris Argyris, Jack Welsh, Roger Fisher, Diana Smith, James O’Toole and Mahatma Gandhi.
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Decision Coach’s Guide to Preparing Presentations

Edward Tufte says, “The point is to explain something. The right metaphor for presentations is not power or PowerPoint. It’s not television or theater. It’s teaching.” This package offers straightforward advice and guidelines that will improve any team’s performance.
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