Cut Through Complexity with AI-Assisted Thinking
Professionals who make consequential decisions regularly: managers, directors, project leads, analysts, consultants, and specialists whose recommendations carry weight. No background in decision science is needed, and you can already be using AI for research and drafting or be starting from scratch.
Run every significant decision through one repeatable five-stage process (the FRAME Decision Protocol), scaling the effort to the stakes instead of relying on gut feel.
Catch the five cognitive biases that most distort professional judgement (anchoring, confirmation, availability, groupthink, sunk cost) and use AI to actively argue against your own first instinct.
Walk into decisions with more real options than the two you would normally weigh, pressure-tested with pre-mortem and devil's-advocate prompting before you commit.
Move from 'it felt right' to a defensible call: explicit decision criteria, weighted and scored, with AI-assisted scenario testing.
Communicate a decision so people grasp the reasoning, not just the outcome, from a team announcement to a board brief.
Leave with a personal 30-day plan that turns the whole protocol into a habit you actually keep, and use AI to challenge your thinking without outsourcing the judgement.
Module by module, in the order they are assigned.
AI decision support matters when professional judgment is tested by budgets, people, timelines, strategy, and evidence under pressure. You finish able to locate AI’s role, recognise five decision biases, and use AI as stronger input while keeping ownership of the call.
FRAME gives professional decision-makers a repeatable protocol for complex calls where instinct, pressure, and AI misuse can distort judgement. You can structure significant decisions, assign AI the right role, and scale the process to the stakes without handing over ownership.
Focus and Research protect high-stakes decisions from polished analysis aimed at the wrong question, a common risk when pressure pushes professionals straight into evidence gathering. You finish able to write a five-element Decision Brief, challenge the frame with AI, layer material evidence, and apply TRUST.
Alternatives and Map widen the choices before a decision and make comparison explicit, protecting professional teams from binaries, hidden criteria, and favourite-option bias. You can generate stronger shortlists, stress-test preferences, weight criteria, separate thresholds, score with reasons, and test leaders across plausible futures.
Execute turns a sound choice into accountable action by making reasoning visible, records durable, and AI boundaries clear when stakes rise. You learn to commit cleanly, communicate difficult decisions, document the rationale, adapt FRAME for complexity, and keep values with people.
FRAME changes decisions when it becomes a light, repeatable habit on live work, not a method remembered during calm moments. You design a 30-day plan that starts at your weakest stage, fits real decisions, and commits you to one dated action.
The course closes with a timed final exam with a pass mark and a limited number of attempts. A pass issues a PDF certificate with its own serial, in the name of the Straits Institute for Applied AI. Cohort progress, at-risk learners and a CSV export are in the admin console throughout.
No. This course is written for professionals who make decisions regularly: managers, directors, project leads, analysts, consultants, and specialists whose recommendations carry weight. It teaches a skill, not a discipline, and everything you need is explained where it appears.
No. If you have, you will recognise the PRISM and TRUST frameworks applied throughout. If you have not, everything you need is explained where it appears. You do not need any prior AI course.
This adds the layer above that: using AI as a structured thinking partner for the decisions where your judgement is on the line. You go beyond faster drafts to a reliable process for framing the decision, expanding your options, and testing your reasoning before you commit.
No. AI gives you better material; you make the decision. Throughout the course, AI is a tool to help you, not replace you, and you are the boss on every call. You always verify the load-bearing facts and own the final judgement.
Six 60-minute modules, six hours in total, each self-paced. The point is a consistent structure that does not add hours of overhead: you scale the process to the stakes, and every module leaves you with a usable artifact you can apply to a real decision the same week.
The course covers handling decision-relevant data responsibly and applies the AI Safety Checklist: what can safely enter public AI tools and what carries confidentiality risk. You learn to research and test decisions with AI while keeping sensitive information out of it.
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Align, Influence and Communicate Across Every Level
Craft Narratives That Move People
Create Learning Experiences That Work
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