Be a Good Decision Maker

Inevitably, one of your job requirements might expect you to make decisions for your organization. When you rise up your career ladder you will find that you will be increasingly tasked to make decisions. Becoming a good decision maker will make you an asset to your organization.

Some of the decisions that you have to make may have a deep impact on your career as well as the lives of other people working with you. For instance, your company is suffering a financial crisis and the management team that you head has identified various causes for this crisis. To arrest this financial crisis you have been proposed with a solution that includes terminating thirty percent of your existing staff strength. Since you are the key decision maker you have the unenviable task of selecting those staff that you have to let go. How are you going to make that decision?

We sometimes pray that we do not find ourselves in such a dilemma. However, when tough situations arises only those who can make tough decisions will survive. So here are a few pointers on how you can become a good decision maker in your organization.

1. Understand the root cause of the situation

2. Do not succumb to office politics

3. Don’t be drawn into the ‘Groupthink’ mentality

4. Successful Decision are those that can be translated into Action

5. Viewing failure as feedback for further refinement