Improve Your Decision-Making Skills
Decision-making is not easy but that’s what a leader has to do all day, every day.
Even if you’re not leading a team in an organization you can still apply these techniques in your daily life with your friends and family.
We’re going to cover two ways to come to a decision. One is to listen to everyone and then make a decision. The other is to let the team decide.
Both of these approaches have their pros and cons and both of these ways are valid and applicable in different scenarios.
At the heart of decision-making is information. There are different ways that information can flow within your company.
We’ll look at the pros and cons of different ways to control and distribute information and how they affect decision-making and vice versa.
Decision Making Without a Center
In this model, the leader supports the team in coming into their own decisions and helps them to carry out those decisions.
For example, when there is a conflict between two teams and they come to the leader for a resolution, the leader can step back in the meeting so that the team members can sort it out.
Giving ownership of the decisions to the team empowers the…
