Decision Making Techniques

How to Make Good Decisions

If you want to lead effectively, you need to be able to make good decisions. If you can learn to do this in a timely and well-considered way, then you can lead your team to spectacular and well-deserved success. However, if you dither or make poor decisions, your team risks failure and your time as a leader will probably be brutally short.

The techniques in this section help you to make the best decisions possible with the information you have available. They help you map out the likely consequences of decisions, work out the importance of individual factors, and choose the best courses of action.

The section starts with some simple techniques that help you to make decisions where many factors are claiming your attention. It then moves on to explain more powerful techniques, such as use of Decision Trees, 6 Thinking Hats and Cost/Benefit Analysis, which are routinely used in commercial Decision