Judgment Under Pressure

AI can process data faster than any manager. What it cannot do is make the call in an ambiguous situation: when values conflict, when the data is incomplete, when the right answer depends on context nobody wrote down. Stop the project or give it another month? Tell the client now or after you have a fix? Back the team or the sponsor? These decisions define a senior manager, and they are usually made in a hurry, under pressure and alone. In three hours with Alina Piddubna (PgMP, PfMP, portfolio manager of advanced-technology programs, former head of PMO at two Ukrainian banks, including the Alfa-Bank and Ukrsotsbank merger program) you learn how judgment fails under pressure in predictable ways, a simple way to decide when to act fast and when to delay, how to decide with incomplete information without pretending you know more, and what to do when the data gives no answer and the decision comes down to values. The core of the workshop is three live dilemmas from real project and portfolio situations, with no correct answer. You take a position, defend it and hear how others reasoned. You leave with your own decision protocol for the next high-stakes call. This is INSTAR's most advanced open workshop.