Yesterday’s post explored sixteen signals to identify when strategizing becomes procrastination, stopping you from moving forward with implementation. At the heart of many of the sixteen signals is apprehension with decision making for various reasons.
In light of the challenges we all (okay, maybe most of us) face at times with making decisions on a timely basis, here is a recap list of Brainzooming articles on making successful decisions.
Decision Making Techniques
1. Don’t Overthink It? 5 Key Questions for Quick Decisions
Here are five ways to constrain thinking when it's too easy to take more time to make decisions. Chopping off some available time, resources, and possibilities can get you to a decision much faster.
2. Making Decision Making Easier – She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
One factor that can slow decision making speed is too many available choices. Here is a low-tech, very direct way to narrow your decision options and move directly toward decision making.
3. Strategic Thinking Exercise – Simply Making Big Decisions
Your approach for making big decisions doesn’t have to be overly complicated. It can be as simple as listing your criteria and asking yes or no questions about the options you’re considering.
4. Black and White Decision Making? Today, Change to Grey (and Vice Versa)
There are benefits to consciously changing your typical decision making style, even if temporarily.
5. Project Management – 15 Techniques When Time Is Running Down
I enjoy events because they have a built-in deadline: at some point, the event will start, and all decisions are either made or you’ve lost the chance to tinker any longer. When looking at all deadlines as “events,” these techniques help focus and move forward when time is running down.
Decision Making with Teams
6. Level 5 Decisions – Decision Making without Your Influence
Maybe part of your decision making challenge is you are trying to make too many decisions yourself. This helpful strategic thinking approach helps move decisions away from you toward your team so everyone can be more effective.
7. Striving for Simple Revolutionary Ideas
This prioritization and decision making approach not only helps identify winning ideas, it takes best advantage of using both individuals and groups working through a group decision making process efficiently.
Prioritization
8. Built for Discomfort – An Alternative Prioritization Strategy for Innovation
If the easy decision is always the decision that gets made, this prioritization strategy will help force a group to more strongly consider uncomfortable ideas that can be more challenging but also more beneficial.
9. Prioritizing Things Others Are Depending Upon
When you’re in a team situation, delaying a decision or action can really screw things up for the next person in the process. This alternative prioritization approach places a premium on taking actions that set the next person up for success.
Dealing with Varied Decision Making Situations
10. Making a Decision – 7 Situations Begging for Quick Decisions
It can be easy to lose sight of the bigger picture and turn small decisions into protracted ones. This guide adds some perspective to seven common decision making situations that could be quick decisions once you strip away everything that’s surrounding them.
11. Market Research – 5 Ways to Not Screw Up Focus Group Decision Making
As a market researcher, I’m quick to support the idea of getting market input to help make better decisions. If you misuse market research as a way to tap market input, however, you can make the situation worse. Here’s how to not screw up focus groups if you’re using them.
12. Is Your Brand Headed for Trouble? 5 Strategic Warning Signs
While decision making isn’t the central focus of this article, poor decision making is at the heart of these strategic warning signs that suggest a brand is heading for trouble, if it’s not already present and accounted for in Troubleville. – Mike Brown
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