Coaching
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:
- assesses only the main information
- identifies the weakness points starting from the details that could appear meaningless
- asks questions not foreseen in advance and which could not be understood by the others
- is not systematic in his way to go ahead
- correlates among them factors which were not been considered before
- gives quickly one solution
- is not so available to answer to the questions, asking more information or to go more in deep on the topic
It is more systematic who:
- appears tireless on the job
- is very documented on the activity which he has to take in charge
- wants to understand in deep the questions he is coping with
- asks questions that are specifics and accurates
- identifies weakness points or new facts using a systematic procedure of analysis
- takes his time to decide, without to give immediately a solution
- is more available and patient to answer to the requests of further information
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:
- which are the available information now
- which are the information I have to find because they are necessaries
- which are the sufficient quantities of information that I needed
- which are the expectations (in terms of the results to achieve) of the others on this issue
- who can help me