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Did I Make the Right Decision? Managers are paid to make decisions, simple as that, but do you consistently and carefully think and review exactly the decisions that you are making? We can all learn from experience and critically assessing past decisions, and their outcomes, sharpens up the skill going forward. Ask yourself the following …
How To Make Excellent Decisions All Of The Time The more we use advanced thinking processes and techniques, rather than just going for what seems right and our own “gut” feelings, the more likely we are to make better decisions and to decrease error rates. When considering planning and making decisions much can be gained …
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What Is A Decision? Management is all about making decisions – if this was not the case then you would not be in your job! What makes for a decision? A good way to look at this is a specific commitment to action (usually a commitment of resources) in the form of a plan to …
Good Or Bad Decision Making? There are only two factors that will tell you if you have made a good decision or not – regardless of the context, scale and scope of that decision a good decision is judged on: The quality of that decision The likelihood of that decision actually being implemented and having …
How Do I Know It Is Time To Make A Decision? What to do – shall I wait and see what happens next or do I dive in and do something? How do you know when it is best to keep an open mind or are you just procrastinating and delaying things? The time to …
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A Simple Decision Making Process We all are involved in making decisions every day – many are just routine and require little thought, many we have made numerous times before, some we do automatically. Some we sadly keep getting wrong! When we have to make an important decision we need a different approach. This is …
How To Make Excellent Decisions All decisions should be made as low as possible in the organisation. The Charge of the Light Brigade was ordered by an officer who was not there looking at the territory. It didn’t go well. Is the decision you are about to make either expensive or not. It’s that simple. …
Why Critical Thinking Is An Important Management Skill Is it better to just accept things that you hear or see? Do we regularly take things at face value? Poor management is always the result of a lack of critical skills; this is often because assumptions are made that fit our pre-existing views and we find …
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Managerial Four Stage Critical Thinking Model We all make decisions in the heat of the moment and when asked why we took a certain course of action we are floundering as to justify exactly why we did what we did. A quick and effective tool is the ROAD model which can be quickly applied and …
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How Are Managerial Decision Making And Conflict Linked? What tactics do managers use when trying to exert influence and power through information and decision making? Information Control: information gives power. It is always hard to argue against the facts, even if you consider them to be flawed or even worse, wrong. Managers keep key pieces …
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