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Guide to create the action plan: the decision process


Decide: Skill regarding to take decisions with efficiency and quickness, taking some risks, taking decisions based on information quantities not always excellent and using personal intuition.

Have you an intuitive or systematic mind? Identify which of both describe better your decisional style.

It is more intuitive who:

It is more systematic who:

The negative side of the intuitive style of decision regards the possibility to become impatient o to react impulsively. Therefore the error consists to react before to think. If this pattern of answer is associated with a very high confidence on his competences, these persons could believe too much in their solutions and not to listen or different ideas.
The negative side of the systematic style concern the possibility to become prisoner of the thoughts and worries related to effects of the decisions to be taken. In this condition the decision process can slow down too much, because these individuals try to find further proofs to demonstrate the validity of the decision taken or they give too attention to the ideas of the others.

It is better to take a wrong decision rather than not decide. Therefore when you have to cope with a new issue or a problem the first thing to think is: "How much time I have to decide"? Next steps are:
At this point you have the information useful to take your decision