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In this part of our guide to organizational management we cover decision making…

Decisions, big and small, need to be made every day, and for an organization to be effective, its managers need to be able to constantly solve problems and make decisions that are of benefit to it.

The first step in doing so is to prioritize problems according to the effect they have on the organization, ensuring that decisions are made first on the ones of most significance to the organization. Having prioritized, each problem should then be worked through systematically before a final decision is made on it.

Jumping to conclusions should be avoided as first impressions rarely give the whole picture – obtaining and assessing all the information available being the best way to prevent doing this. Such information should ideally be from more than one source to prevent bias and should be verifiable in some way.

Brainstorming possible solutions with one or more individuals, after receiving all relevant information, can provide a few different perspectives, which can be beneficial to coming up with an elucidation that will work. Potential options can be wide-ranging in the beginning and narrowed down and tweaked until the best possible fix is determined.

Having identified a set of options and solutions, feedback and suggestions on them, along with alternatives, should be sought from consultations with others. For the most part, group decisions (particularly where the group contains people who the end decision will affect) are preferable to those made by individuals as a pool of knowledge, skills and experience can be drawn upon.

Available assistance in the decision-making process can come in the form of Pareto Analysis, Paired Comparison Analysis, Grid Analysis, PMI, Six Thinking Hats, Starbursting, and Decision Trees, to name but a few. These techniques should not be relied upon solely to make a decision, but should be used to guide the process and offer a more scientific-approach. This is of particular importance where the decision-maker is a little too close to the issue to see the bigger picture.

Then comes the time to weigh the pros and cons of a decision. Which option or solution gives most to the organization whilst taking least from it? Few decisions will be as clear cut to hold no drawbacks. Negatives are acceptable though, so long as the positives sufficiently outweigh them.

Have you ever wondered, “Can I trust my intuition when it comes to important decisions?” I bet you have. Most people, even the most rational and scientifically minded experience flashes of intuition. While people in olden days trusted their intuition without question, many of us in the modern, scientific, technological world are uncomfortable trusting our intuition. But just because we’re uncomfortable trusting our intuitive selves, that doesn’t mean we’re doing the right thing. So can you trust your intuition?

For most people, in most situations, the answer is yes, you can trust your intuition. Throughout history, many of the most successful, most spiritual, most effective people have relied heavily on their intuitive side for big decisions. Even in the boardrooms of the largest and most sophisticated corporations, executive rely on their sense of intuition as much or more than they do upon the data and reports the data gives them.

Some people won’t trust their intuition because they don’t understand where it comes from. Some feel that intuition is merely what happens when your subconscious mind processes all the information available to them below the level of conscious awareness. Others know in their hearts that intuition is something non-rational, a source of information that’s beyond our science and technology. Still others believe it is a spiritual force, emanating from whatever power is guiding our universe.

Fortunately, it doesn’t matter where you believe your intuition comes from. All that matters is whether or not you can rely on your intuition to help you. And the answer to that is clear. When they consciously keep track of the messages they receive from their intuition, most people discover that most of the time, the answer their intuition gave them was the right one. That makes intuition a potentially empowering force in your life. All that’s left to do is develop that force to fully benefit from it.

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