Behavioral Economics and Decision Design Course

Name: Behavioral Economics and Decision Design Training Course
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Diagnose decision frictions, design ethical choice environments, and test behavioral interventions in practice.

Behavioral Economics and Decision Design Course

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Nice, Accra, Sharm El-Sheikh, Cairo, Porto, Rome and more
Next session: 2 – 6 November 2026, Nice
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Behavioral Economics and Decision Design Training Course

Overview

Behavioral Economics and Decision Design Training Course is a one-week course for managers, policy professionals, analysts, customer-experience professionals, and HR practitioners, who leave with a Behavioral Intervention Test Plan. The course connects bounded rationality, heuristics, cognitive bias, choice architecture, incentives, the EAST framework, experimentation, and ethical review. It replaces intuition-led interventions with behavioral diagnosis and testable design. Agile Leaders Training Center develops applied behavioral economics practice.

Who Should Attend

Professionals responsible for designing policies, services, or customer journeys
Leaders accountable for organizational decisions and behavior-change initiatives
Analysts who examine decision patterns, frictions, and intervention evidence
People practitioners who design employee communications and workplace choices
Teams responsible for experimentation, evaluation, and ethical governance

The course assumes participants already contribute to decisions or service design, and leaves out clinical diagnosis, behavioral finance specialization, and coercive manipulation.

Departments and Industries

The course supports behavioral decision design across public services, financial services, retail, technology, healthcare, and professional services.

Strategy, policy, and service-design departments
Customer experience, marketing, and product teams
Human resources and organizational development functions
Financial services, retail, and technology organizations
Healthcare, public service, and professional service organizations

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Analyze decisions through bounded rationality and behavioral evidence
Diagnose heuristics, biases, frictions, and contextual influences
Apply the EAST framework to choice architecture
Evaluate incentives, defaults, framing, and social norms
Build an ethical behavioral experiment and measurement plan
Use findings to adapt an intervention responsibly

Course Agenda

Day 1: Behavioral Decision Foundations

Bounded Rationality and Dual-Process Decision Map
Heuristics and Cognitive Bias Diagnostic Catalogue
Prospect Theory, Reference Points, and Loss Framing
Present Bias, Inertia, and Status Quo Analysis
Behavioral Problem Statement and Target Behavior Canvas

Day 2: Context and Behavioral Diagnosis

Decision Journey and Friction Mapping Method
Attention, Salience, and Information Load Review
Social Norm, Identity, and Peer Influence Map
Incentive, Motivation, and Crowding-Out Checklist
Behavioral Evidence and Assumption Register

Day 3: Choice Architecture and Intervention Design

EAST Framework Intervention Design Cards
Default, Simplification, and Convenience Design Matrix
Framing, Feedback, and Reminder Pattern Library
Choice Preservation and Autonomy Review Checklist
Behavioral Intervention Logic Model

Day 4: Testing, Ethics and Adaptation

Behavioral Hypothesis and Outcome Measure Template
Comparison Group and Experiment Design Canvas
Implementation Fidelity and Context Monitoring Plan
Ethical Risk, Transparency, and Proportionality Review
Test, Learn, and Adapt Decision Protocol

Day 5: Behavioral Design Practice

Exercise: Decision Bias and Friction Diagnosis
Exercise: EAST Choice Architecture Design
Exercise: Incentive and Social Norm Review
Exercise: Ethics and Experiment Readiness Challenge
Capstone: Behavioral Intervention Test Plan

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities to connect behavioral evidence with testable and ethically governed decisions.

Suggested activity: map a customer or employee decision journey and identify behavioral frictions
Suggested activity: redesign a form or message using EAST while preserving meaningful choice
Suggested activity: compare defaults, incentives, framing, and social-norm options against ethical risks
Suggested activity: present a Behavioral Intervention Test Plan with measures, safeguards, and adaptation rules

FAQs

Who suits the Behavioral Economics and Decision Design Training Course?

Professionals who already contribute to policy, service, customer, or workplace decisions suit the course; it assumes practical decision responsibility and no prior specialist economics qualification.

How does behavioral economics differ from behavioral finance training?

Behavioral economics examines decision patterns and intervention design across organizational, policy, and customer contexts; behavioral finance training concentrates on financial markets, investors, and financial choices.

How does choice architecture influence decisions?

Choice architecture influences decisions through the order, framing, defaults, effort, feedback, timing, and social context surrounding available options while preserving meaningful choice.

Why should behavioral interventions be tested?

Behavioral interventions should be tested because context affects results, assumptions may be wrong, and comparison evidence supports responsible decisions about adaptation, scaling, or stopping.

What makes behavioral decision design ethical?

Ethical behavioral decision design uses a legitimate purpose, proportional methods, transparency, autonomy safeguards, fair treatment, data controls, monitoring, and accountable review.

Conclusion

Participants take back a Behavioral Intervention Test Plan. It connects the target behavior, diagnosis, choice architecture, ethical safeguards, experiment design, measures, implementation controls, and adaptation rules. The plan changes an intuition-led idea into a documented intervention that can be tested, reviewed, and improved before wider use.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Rome	Week 23, 2027 7 – 11 June 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
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Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewBehavioral Economics and Decision Design Training Course is a one-week course for managers, policy professionals, analysts, customer-experience professionals, and HR practitioners, who leave with a Behavioral Intervention Test Plan. The course connects bounded rationality, heuristics, cognitive bias, choice architecture, incentives, the EAST frame…

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Behavioral Economics and Decision Design Course