Decision-making under uncertainty & leadership training

The decision-making training ground for executive committees, directors and decision-makers

  • Strategic alliance: Arcane Experience (Immersion & war room crisis simulation) × Feel & Lead (Leadership & the neuroscience of decision-making).
  • Format: 1 day of intensive training (6.5 hours) • 100% in person • Simulation under pressure.
  • Price: From €7,000 excl. VAT / session (in-house group).
  • 📄 Download the programme outline (PDF)
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Why this training is the smartest investment for your decision-makers

Economic, technological and regulatory unpredictability. Information overload. Constant urgency. Decision paralysis and tunnel vision are a company’s leading risk factors. When it comes to making strategic decisions in the middle of the storm, classic theory-led training shows its limits: it teaches the theory, but it doesn’t train people in decision-making under pressure.

Regaining your decision-making capacity, and the leadership that carries a team through uncertainty, means building and strengthening new reflexes:

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The power of action
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An immersive disaster scenario (SIGC Protocol), a war room setting and real-time pressure to test and streamline your collective decision-making process .

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The power of understanding people
Feel & Lead

Grounded in neuroscience and social psychology to understand the mechanics of decision-making, neutralise cognitive biases and secure the final decision.

A gym for decision-making

You don’t prepare athletes for a major competition by showing them slides. You put them on the pitch to run through plays, analyse their calls, correct a poor choice and repeat until the movement becomes automatic.

Our decision-making training works on the same principle: creating a genuine gym to improve decision-making among leaders. This one-of-a-kind programme draws on the best of crisis management, neuroscience and immersive play.

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Building the brain’s muscle memory

Faced with a complex decision, the brain doesn’t apply a theory: it reproduces trained patterns. Repeated training helps you step back and adopt the right stance in real situations.

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A high-intensity “sandbox”

A safe simulation environment to push decision-makers to their limits, make room for mistakes and guarantee effective decision-making. Participants can put these takeaways to work in their day-to-day role straight after the training.

Immersion through the lens of neuroscience
Optimise your brain for decision-making

Why isn’t passive listening enough to learn to decide clearly when you don’t have all the data ? Because when time is short and information floods in, stress erodes our decision-making capacity.

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Understand how your brain works

The contribution of Feel & Lead is to show how a cortisol and adrenaline overload blocks our capacity for strategic analysis. By combining stress management with our “firewall” tools, leaders discover how to protect their decision-making capacity.
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Regain your leadership in uncertainty

Decoding how we work is what turns intention into action. With a new way of reading situations, neuroscience helps us take back control from our autopilot and develop a different kind of leadership.

Through this immersion, discover how the limbic brain is activated and why emotional anchoring matters in decision-making: The limbic brain, the seat of emotions and long-term memory, is the true conductor of our reactions. By plunging participants into an emotionally engaging experience, we stimulate the limbic brain directly. That anchoring guarantees informed decision-making that lasts in the field.

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The “SIGC Protocol” simulator: practise decision-making under tension in full immersion

To neutralise professional biases and put every decision-maker on a strictly equal footing, the immersion doesn’t take place in your usual sector.

With our proprietary platform SIGC Protocol (a setup proven with major groups such as Les Mousquetaires), we drop your executive committee or crisis unit into the heart of a nationwide event: the “Green Jackets” crisis, experienced from the security control room of a Prefecture.

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A universal, out-of-sector context

No technical bias, no pre-set hierarchy. Every participant enters this decision-making process on an equal footing, with clear choices that everyone understands, yet carry real societal impact.

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The intensity of real time

Media alerts, conflicting information flows and time constraints: a gripping dive into a disaster scenario to assess decision speed and the cohesion of collective decision-making.

The training journey in 4 key stages

01
Decoding (neuroscience)

Quiz on cognitive traps, analysis of decision-making mechanisms and understanding the limits of rationality under stress.

03
Activating the firewalls (guided practice)

A second immersion session applying tools that make decision-making easier, and measuring the gain in effectiveness.

02
Crash test under pressure

Straight into the Green Jackets crisis via the SIGC Protocol, with no briefing. Participants see for themselves what blocks fast decision-making.

04
Transfer & management rituals

A mirror debrief to adapt these tools to your company's everyday and operational decisions.

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Practical information & compliance 

To help your L&D leads and HR teams scope the project, here are the key features of this training programme :

Price From €7,000 excl. VAT / session (in-house group).
Who it’s for Executives, executive committee members, CIOs, strategic managers, communications leads and crisis unit members.
Prerequisites No specific prerequisites.
Duration & format Standard format: 1 day (6.5 hours of actual training)
Assessment methods Diagnostic assessment (initial SIGC score), formative assessment (role-play scenarios) and summative assessment (final quiz and measurement of decision gaps).
Record-keeping & certification Digital attendance sheet for each half-day, end-of-training attestation and certificate of completion.
Accessibility The programme can be adapted for people with disabilities through our dedicated accessibility officer.

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FAQ: decision-making under uncertainty

Why bring Arcane Experience and Feel & Lead together for this training?

Because theory without practice creates no reflexes, and practice without keys to interpret it doesn’t guarantee a real grasp of what’s at stake. Pairing Arcane Experience (experts in immersion and war rooms) with Feel & Lead (experts in the neuroscience of leadership) strikes the perfect balance between hands-on action and understanding decision-making processes.

Why play out a Prefecture crisis rather than a case from our own sector?

Placing decision-makers in a universal, out-of-sector context (such as the Green Jackets crisis in a Prefecture) removes expertise bias and technical debate. It focuses 100% of attention on what matters: stress management, cognitive overload, listening, cooperation and pure method for making strategic decisions that hold together. A bespoke scenario remains possible on request.

Can crisis management tools be transferred to our everyday decisions?

Yes, that’s the programme’s main goal. The firewall tools (Devil’s Advocate to avoid groupthink, Sorting the Signal to separate facts from rumours) become permanent management rituals that unclog your meetings, make decisions easier and secure your operational decisions. Looking to schedule a session for your teams? You can contact us directly to talk it through with our team.

What our clients say about us

Véronique Pauwels Hog, CSR Engagement and HR Development Manager, Konecta

This game is a real catalyst. It flags up problem situations and helps resolve them in a playful setting. It's a genuine asset in our management training programme!

Vincent CONTE, Marketing & Development Director, Algeco France

This way of getting our sales teams working in a playful format went down very well. You work on the substance in a form that really engages people. It was hugely appreciated!

Malika Amara, Customer Experience Director, Saint Gobain

I wanted to thank the Arcane team for your support on this great Pulse-up customer obsession project. The workshop is dynamic and easy to grasp for every entity in the group. And we've noticed that once teams have tried it, they adopt it. The brands that tested the game with us are ready to do it again.

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