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Programme sheet
Managing Information Overload and Facilitating Decision-Making
Efficiency & Time ManagementWell-being & BalanceAll employees≈ 20 min
Key skill: Decision-making
Summary
Take back control of the information flow to make better decisions: filter for the essentials, sharpen your critical thinking around generative AI, and share information-gathering across the team to clear blockages.
Target audience
Anyone facing a flood of information that makes discernment and decision-making difficult
Learning objectives
- Manage information overload to prevent anxiety and stress
- Make sound decisions in a context of information saturation
- Take action to fight infobesity at the company level
- Spread information gathering and discoveries across the team
Module outline
- StorytellingExploring Dan Low's three types of people — "One Bag," "Multi Bags," and "No Bag" — and how each approaches information
- ArticlesChatGPT and the importance of critical thinking · 9 tips for decision-making amid information overload · Sharing discoveries as an effective learning method
- Expert videoThe effects of information overload and best practices for regaining control of information
- AnchoringA quiz and true/false questions to deepen the topic and anchor what you've learned
- Memo cardA downloadable coaching memo card: the key takeaways from the expert video
- CommitmentConcrete examples to help you define your own commitment
Models & methods
Information dieting; the One Bag/Multi Bags/No Bag typology; three sorting questions.
Research-based
74% of managers experience overload, 94% see it getting worse; Caroline Sauvajol-Rialland (Infobésité), David Shenk, Dan Low, Markess International; the French Directorate General for Labour.