Career: Making High-Impact Decisions with AI

Learn to make better technical decisions using practical frameworks and AI

About This Course

As a senior developer or tech lead, you're expected to make decisions that shape systems, teams, and products, but nobody teaches you how. This course is designed to bridge the gap between strong execution and strong judgment. You'll learn how to frame the right problem before jumping to solutions, how to assess risk and decide when to move fast versus when to slow down, and how to surface the hidden assumptions that derail projects. From there, you'll work through practical frameworks for evaluating trade-offs, including weighted scoring, impact mapping, and OODA. You'll also learn how to structure and communicate your recommendations so others can follow your reasoning and buy in. Throughout the course, AI is used as a thinking partner, helping you stress-test options, challenge blind spots, and pressure-test how you're framing each decision. Finally, you'll build habits around decision records and journals so your judgment keeps improving over time.

Course Curriculum

3h 42m 9 sections

Welcome

01:38 Free preview

What will you learn in this course?

01:24 Free preview

Who is this course for and prerequisites?

01:21 Free preview

Teaching Style

01:15 Free preview

Why Execution Alone Has a Ceiling

06:49

Leverage, Second-Order Effects, and Decision Debt

09:54

What It Means to "Make the Call" in Complex Systems

09:50

What Are We Actually Deciding?

07:14

Defining Success: Constraints, Stakeholders, and Trade-offs

08:56

Using AI to Reframe Problems and Surface Blind Spots

10:09

Reversible vs. Irreversible Decisions

11:27

When to Move Fast, When to Slow Down

10:23

Using AI to Explore Risk, Reversibility, and Recovery Paths

12:11

Finding Technical, Product, and Organizational Assumptions

10:00

Ranking Assumptions by Uncertainty and Impact

10:01

Using AI as an Assumption Extractor and Skeptical Challenger

11:41

Why Every Important Decision Is a Trade-off

09:07

Practical Frameworks: Weighted Scoring, Impact Mapping, OODA

12:51

Using AI to Stress-Test Options and Compare Scenarios

11:15

Structuring Your Recommendation So Others Can Follow It

09:48

Communicating the Call: Buy-in Without Losing Ownership

09:12

Using AI to Pressure-Test How You're Framing the Decision

09:30

Decision Records, Decision Journals, and Organizational Memory

09:17

Reviewing Decisions Without Hindsight Bias

09:58

Using AI to Summarize, Compare, and Improve Your Decision Patterns

10:28

Conclusion

05:52

Course Details

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Duration

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Meet Your Instructor

Aleksandra Majkic

Aleksandra Majkic

Aleksandra Majkic, M.Sc. is a Strategic Talent Development Partner with 15+ years of experience in the high-tech industry. She supports tech professionals in building the leadership, communication, and people skills needed to thrive in fast-paced, ever-evolving environments. Having led high-performing teams and contributed to a successful company acquisition, Aleksandra understands the real-world challenges of growing a career in tech. She developed the MIND Framework® to help individuals navigate change with confidence, lead with clarity, and make strategic career moves—without losing their authenticity. Her approach is bold, practical, and human-centered—designed for those ready to step into greater impact and unlock their full potential in tech and beyond.

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