How to Communicate a Decision
This article is designed as a basic guide to help you plan and communicate your decision. Alternatively, it can be used to help coach a member of your team who is new to the responsibility of communicating a decision.
Decision Making
Learn more about how to define the decisions you need to make, weigh up your options, and implement and communicate your decisions effectively. And explore the factors that can help and hinder the decision-making process.
Top Tips for Avoiding Decision-Making Pitfalls
Decision-making can be a complex and challenging process, often fraught with potential pitfalls. Following the suggestions here will help you to avoid these obstacles and ensure that you continue to reach and implement decisions effectively.
Identify and Gather Information For Your Decision
Identifying and gathering reliable and relevant information is one of the most important aspects of the decision-making process. This article provides an overview of the different types of information available and offers some advice on how to choose between information sources.
Plus Minus Implications
This technique will help you to weigh the pros and cons of a particular decision. It can be especially useful in situations where you are unsure if you should make a decision at all.
The KJ-Method for Establishing Priorities
This exercise uses the KJ-Method to help groups effectively establish priorities and make decisions. When resources are limited this exercise helps organisations to assess what is most important and reach a group consensus. Allow about one hour for completion.
Critical Decision-Making Techniques
Critical thinking is the mental process that individuals go through to reach an answer or a conclusion. The critical thinking process can be a valuable tool in problem-solving and decision-making. Here we look at some of the techniques involved.
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Basic Instincts: Unconscious Bias at Work
What unconscious bias is, and how to keep your own biases under control.
Exploring Your Options
Being faced with the task of choosing from a host of possible options is intrinsic to the decision-making process. This exercise explores how your team tackles such a situation. Allow around an hour for completion.
Overcoming the Barriers to Effective Team Decision-Making
We outline some social pressures that can occur in a group situation to impact the effectiveness of team decision-making and suggest strategies to overcome these.
Creative Decision-Making
This lively group exercise examines how creative ideas can be constrained, freed or organised by giving each subgroup a different instruction on how to organise a task. Allow an hour for completion.
Understanding Beliefs and Bias in Decision Making
Our values, beliefs and attitudes shape us as people. They guide us when creating relationships and in our interactions and discussions with others. In this article we look at how our principles can both help and hinder us in our day to day lives.
Mind Tricks: Is Decision-Making Always Rational?
Decision-making is rational and process led. Over the years a clear, delineated step-by-step technique has been developed which varies little from one organisation to another. So why is it then that so many bad decisions are still made? One reason may be the tricks that our mind can play on us when we truly believe we have come to a rational decision. This article looks at some of the experiments discussed by Dan Ariely in his book 'Predictably Irrational', and examines how irrationality can affect day-to-day decision-making.