Quality Assurance and Career Planning: Fortune 500 Firms
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Your quality assurance and career planning practices will determine whether your career thrives in the increasingly-disrupted post-COVID future of work.
Yet traditional advice to "go with your gut" in quality assurance and career planning scenarios so often leads to disasters, as revealed by research in behavioral economics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. So how do Fortune 500 companies help their leaders and staff make the right calls on even the toughest decisions in quality assurance and career planning strategies?
They recognize that behavioral science has revealed that our typical approach to quality assurance and career planning scenarios suffers from systematic dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases. Fortunately, recent scholarship has revealed effective yet counterintuitive strategies to enable you to defeat these cognitive biases. In this course, you will learn about and address these dangerous judgment errors, while mastering techniques for quality assurance and career planning success drawing on cutting-edge behavioral science and real-world best practices from Fortune 500 companies.
After taking this course, you will:
- Master quality assurance and career planning best practices used by Fortune 500 firms to help their staff seize competitive advantage in their careers
- Feel truly confident about making the right call in your quality assurance and career planning practices to achieve your full potential and income
- Develop a plan with specific next steps to adapt for yourself the methods used by Fortune 500 firms for quality assurance and career planning success
- Discover the dangerous judgment errors (cognitive biases) that lead to quality assurance and career planning disasters & how Fortune 500 firms defeat them
- Free yourself of constant ruminations, numerous grey zones, and mental blindspots that plague typical quality assurance and career planning scenarios
Sounds too good to be true? These methods were successfully used by Aflac, Applied Materials, Entergy, Honda, IBM, Reckitt, Wells Fargo, and Xerox to dramatically improve the quality assurance and career planning practices of their leaders and staff. Over the last two decades, I trained the employees at these Fortune 500 companies, as well as at numerous middle-market companies and quickly-growing startups, as the CEO of the boutique future-proofing consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts. The secrets used by these companies will be revealed in this course.
Here’s a recent testimonial from Cheryl Smith, Global Director of Talent Management, Organizational Capabilities, and Diversity at Xerox, a company ranked #415 by Fortune, about the impact of my career plan coaching for her:
- “I really like your coaching style. You ask meaningful questions without 'leading the witness.' It's a great fit for executives."
Here’s a recent testimonial from Harish Phadke, the Business Manager for the head of the North American Health division at Reckitt, a company ranked #326 by Fortune, about the impact of my training on the Reckitt North American Health Leadership Team:
- “Dr. Gleb Tsipursky provided a truly outstanding virtual training on unconscious bias and future-proofing via emotional and social intelligence for the Reckitt North American Health Leadership Team. Exceeding our expectations, Dr Gleb customized his groundbreaking, behavioral science-driven training content to integrate our initiatives, policies, and case studies at Reckitt, expertly targeting our evolving needs. We are delighted to have met Dr. Gleb, and look forward to future opportunities to keep working with him on a training series for the organization. I highly recommend him for anyone who wants to get a rapid grasp of highly relevant topics which influence human behavior in the prevailing challenging times.”
Besides such real-world, pragmatic expertise, I have a strong academic background as a behavioral scientist studying career decision making and related fields. I spent 8 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, first getting a PhD and then serving as a lecturer there. Then, I spent 7 years as a professor at the Ohio State University’s Decision Sciences Collaborative and History Department. There, I published dozens of peer-reviewed articles on these topics in high-quality academic journals such as Behavior and Social Issues and Journal of Social and Political Psychology. Thus, this course is thoroughly informed by cutting-edge research.
This combination of business and science led to my expertise gaining global recognition. I published over 550 articles and gave over 450 interviews for prominent venues, such as Fortune, USA Today, CNBC, Fast Company, CBS News, Business Insider, Inc. Magazine, and Time.
My expertise is also featured in my 7 best-selling books, including global best-sellers Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (Career Press, 2019) and The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships (New Harbinger, 2020). Further attesting to my global renown, my work was translated into Chinese, German, Russian, Korean, Polish, Spanish, French, and other languages.
So why should you take my course rather than someone else’s alternative course? Simply because this course provides unparalleled value. Consider my level of credibility in the course topic:
- As a trainer for Fortune 500 companies
- As a behavioral scientist
- As a best-selling author
- As a globally-renowned thought leader
So if you want a lower-value alternative, take someone else’s class. If you want the best, take this course.
Once you register, you'll get access to the textbook course materials packet. The packet consists of my best-selling book, my assessment on dangerous judgment errors, 3 manuals on techniques for career decision making, and 4 decision aids, all of which sell for over $35 combined. Fortune 500 firms get this packet to help their leaders and staff seize competitive advantage in their careers: you’re getting what they are getting.
Your registration is risk-free. See the terms and conditions for more.
I look forward to welcoming you into the world of evidence-based, science-driven techniques tested in the real world of many Fortune 500 companies and numerous middle-market companies and startups. To ensure that you master the secrets of Fortune 500 firms to help yourself seize competitive advantage in your quality assurance and career planning practices, register now!
You need to trust best practices from Fortune 500 firms and behavioral science-based findings over outdated advice such as “go with your gut” in order to seize a competitive advantage in quality assurance and career planning outcomes
After taking this course, you will:
- Master quality assurance and career planning best practices used by Fortune 500 firms to help their staff seize competitive advantage in their careers
- Feel truly confident about making the right call in your quality assurance and career planning practices to achieve your full potential and income
- Develop a plan with specific next steps to adapt for yourself the methods used by Fortune 500 firms for quality assurance and career planning success
- Discover the dangerous judgment errors (cognitive biases) that lead to quality assurance and career planning disasters & how Fortune 500 firms defeat them
- Free yourself of constant ruminations, numerous grey zones, and mental blindspots that plague typical quality assurance and career planning scenarios
- Learning Objective: Learn what the course will be about and get my best-selling book on which the course is based.
- Learning Steps: Watch the video “Introduction - Career Strategic Development.” Download the course textbook packet.
- Learning Objective: Learn what the course will be about and get my best-selling book on which the course is based.
- Learning Steps: Watch the video “Introduction - Career Strategic Development.” Download the course textbook packet.
- Learning Objective: Learn about the dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases that block career success and identify where they might have impeded your career in the past and how to prevent such problems it in the future
- Learning Steps: Watch the video “A Truly Long-Term Career.” Then, read the Introduction, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2 of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (Career Press, 2019). For each of the cognitive biases that are most dangerous for long-term career planning, write a brief paragraph about where they might have harmed your career in the past and where they might be damaging in the future.
- Learning Objective: Discover how to prevent cognitive biases from dead-ending your career
- Learning Steps: Watch the video “How to Not Dead-End Your Career.” Then, read Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (Career Press, 2019). For each of the cognitive biases that are most dangerous for dead-ending careers, write a brief paragraph about where they might have harmed your career in the past and where they might be damaging in the future.
- Learning Objective: Discover and manage the specific cognitive biases that are most important for you to influence key people for your career
- Learning Steps: Watch the video “Influencing Key People for Your Career.” Then, read Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (Career Press, 2019). For each of the cognitive biases that are most important for you to influence key people for their career, write a brief paragraph about where not knowing about these mental blindspots might have harmed your career in the past and where knowing about them might be helpful in the future.
- Learning Objective: Learn how to assess the impact of various cognitive biases on your career and your workplace
- Learning Steps: Watch the video “How to Assess Blindspots in Your Career.” Then, read Chapter 7 and Conclusion of Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (Career Press, 2019). Please take the “Assessment on Dangerous Judgment Errors in the Workplace” in Chapter 7 of the book with a focus on your own career. You’ll find a PDF of the assessment included if you prefer to print it out and take it that way. Use the scoring system to score yourself and then use the competencies section to determine your career competencies as they relate to cognitive biases. Decide which 3-5 cognitive biases you will choose to work on first as a way to improve your career development.
- Learning Objective: Master a research-driven technique to make the best quick career decisions daily where you just need a “good enough” answer
- Learning Steps: Watch the video “5 Keys to Quick, Effective Career Decisions.” Then, write down the types of daily decisions, in your career and more broadly in your professional life, where you will use this method from now on. Practice using the method for quick and effective career decisions on three moderately important, day-to-day career decisions you have made in the past that you feel have not worked out as well as you would like. Determine how you might have made better decisions if you used this quick method. Create a reminder system by printing out the “5 Questions to Avoid Decision Disasters” decision aid poster and placing it in a prominent place by your computer to remind you to use this technique.
- Learning Objective: Master a research-driven technique to make the best major career decisions where you need the best answer possible
- Learning Steps: Watch the video “8 Steps to Making the Best Major Career Decisions.” Then, read through the manual on “Making the Best Decisions.” Write down the types of major decisions, in your career and more broadly in your professional life, where you will use this method from now on. Practice using the method for major career decisions on one major career decision you have made in the past that have not worked out as well as you would like. Determine how you might have made a better decision if you used this method. Consider a major decision that is currently coming up for your career or might come up in the future. Practice using the “Making the Best Decisions” method for this upcoming decision. Create a reminder system by printing out the “Making the Best Decisions” decision aid poster and placing it in a prominent place by your computer to remind you to use this technique.
- Learning Objective: Master a research-driven technique to minimize failure and maximize success when implementing major career decisions
- Learning Steps: Watch the video “How to Failure-Proof Your Career Decisions.” Then, read through the manual on “Failure-Proofing.” Write down the types of major decisions, in your career and more broadly in your professional life, where you will use this method from now on. Practice using the “Failure-Proofing” method for one major career decision you have made in the past where the implementation has not worked out as well as you would like. Determine how you might have implemented the decision in a better manner if you used this method. Consider a major decision that is currently coming up for your career or might come up in the future. Practice using the “Failure-Proofing” method to improve your implementation of this upcoming decision. Create a reminder system by printing out the “Failure-Proofing” decision aid poster and placing it in a prominent place by your computer to remind you to use this technique.
- Learning Objective: Master a research-driven technique to develop a strategic plan for your career that combines key elements from all previous lessons
- Learning Steps: Watch the video “7 Steps to Creating Your Career Strategic Plan.” Then, read through the manual on “Defending Your Future.” Use this method to develop the Five-Year Strategic Plan for your career success. At decision-making points for moderately important decisions, use the “5 Questions to Avoid Decision Disasters” technique. At decision-making points for major decisions, use the “Making the Best Decisions” technique. For these same major decisions, use the “Failure-Proofing” method to plan out the most effective implementation plan. Make a reminder to yourself in your calendar to update your plan once a quarter, as well as when you anticipate any major career developments, or in response to unanticipated developments. Create a reminder system by printing out the “Defend Your Future” decision aid poster and placing it in a prominent place by your computer to remind you to use this technique. Make a one-page poster summary of your career Five-Year Strategic Plan to success, in the style of the decision aid posters. Then, hang it in a prominent place by your computer, to remind you daily of your plan to success. Revise and reprint this summary every time you update your plan.
- Learning Objective: Master how to deal with professional colleagues – supervisors, peers, subordinates – who express irrational beliefs and are in denial in ways that don’t harm your career
- Learning Steps: Watch the video: "How to Deal With Irrational Colleagues in Denial." Next, print out the decision aid for this technique mental skills and put it in a prominent place by your computer. Then journal a paragraph about how you might have applied it in the past to help improve your career, and another paragraph on how you might apply it in the future to help improve your career.
- Learning Objective: Develop a specific plan with next steps for mastery of the course content and lifelong learning
- Learning Steps: Watch the video “Next Steps for Lifelong Learning.” Next, take advantage of the resources mentioned in the video and additional resources you might find helpful, which are listed next. Register for your continued learning resources at this link https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/subscribe/ Take some of my other courses on this platform. Email me with your course feedback and questions at Gleb@DisasterAvoidanceExperts.com Connect with me on LinkedIn at this link - make sure to tell me that you took my course so that I know to accept your request https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-gleb-tsipursky/ Please leave a course review with your feedback. It’s super-helpful for me to know whether the course is working well for you, or whether some improvements can be made. It’s also incredibly useful for other students to learn about your experience to help them decide whether to take the course. Ensure that they make the best decisions!
