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Tips for ease of decision making
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For the freshers or even the ones at high
designations; possessing decision making skills is a must! They need to balance
the decision making processes with a bit of “rashness.” There is a desire to be
well versed with the techniques that would be of great assistance in guiding
the decisions and keep you from worrying about the repercussions. Here are
5 tips to help you balance out decision making process:
Keep yourself going with a self-imposed deadline. It’s simple enough to
incorporate: any time you have to make a decision, just set the timer and begin
the process. Though time limit puts pressure on you but it also helps to
quickly assess the pros and cons and land to a decision. The simplicity behind this
tip makes it very accessible. This would prove to be highly beneficial in
increasing your pace taking the decisions rather than delaying it.
2. Think deeply
There arise situations when the number of
choices is more than desired. This anyhow doesn’t ease the process but leads to
more problem in analyzing as to which one is the best. Hence, in this case you
are desired to judge the available options as good or bad; this will simplify
and quicken the process of weeding out the less optimal decisions.
3. Go for probability
In case all the options available with you
are of equal value then you ought to rely your decision on probability. For
this, write down your best ones on separate pieces of paper, place them in a
hat/bag and pull out a piece randomly to make the decision.
4. Live in the moment
Focus more on the tasks and thus the
decisions to be taken rather than putting all the energy on thinking about the
possible outcomes. You are not required to judge each step along with its every
outcome. It’s better to save that energy for the task at hand, and simply
try and make the best decision possible. The focus has to be on reaching
to a decision based on what will make the next step the easiest instead. Doing
this for every step is a great choice for the chronic non-decision maker.
Positive thinking influences the decisions on
rational level as well as on psychological level. Thinking that the decision
might lead to bad results slows the decision making process; hence focus on the
positive side of making the decision without wasting time.
Instead, we should see delaying the decision
as worse than making a bad decision. Bad decisions can be recovered from
and learned from, but not making a decision at all means we don’t get to
determine how our lives unfold. A fear of failure means that something or
someone will make that decision for you.
Being good at decision making speaks volumes of your
ability to excel at a top level designation.
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