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Weighted Decision Making

Need to make a decision? You might use a weighted decision-making matrix in order to evaluate a variety of options before making a final decisions. Decision matrices provide a structure to compare options to enable for better decision making.

Let’s look at an example of weighted decision making. In this example, we are deciding which […]

Making Better Decisions

Making decisions is often the toughest part of a leader’s job. The wrong decision can carry tremendous risk – damaging the company’s reputation, impacting customers negatively, or causing loss of revenue or increased costs.

However, many of the decisions that we have to make don’t have to be made immediately! Often we can take some […]

Enabling for Employee Decision Making

As we climb the ladder into more senior leadership roles, we have to rely on others to accomplish goals and meet objectives. We can’t continue to do it all as we take on more responsibilities at a leadership level. However, many leaders are not comfortable delegating authority to employees. They are afraid of what might […]

The value of delayed decisions

Most conversations about improvement revolve around finding ways to speed things up. Whether by focusing on the elimination of unnecessary activities, doing less more often, reducing clutter, training the mind to avoid multitasking, or any other approach to speeding up decision making the prevailing message is clear: do things faster.

The desire to do things […]

Are You Allowing Decisions to Be Made At All Levels?

Too often managers feel as if all decisions must be made by them. This may work fine and not cause any issues when an organization is smaller, but as an organization grows decisions making must be pushed down the line. Empowering others within the organization to make decisions enables – for the employee to feel:

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