Leadership Essentials: Decision Making
Decision-making is about selecting the best choice from all the available alternatives. You need to gain agreement and clarity about why a decision needs to be made, understand what the decision is trying to achieve, and be open to all possible options, seeking advice from others to avoid unconscious bias.
‘Leadership Essentials: Decision-Making’ provides an overview of why decision-making is essential for leadership capability and includes ‘Top Tips’ on how good decision-making can help you become a better leader.
The Essentials leaflet is supported by three Spotlights that look at decision-making in more detail to help you improve your leadership skills:
- Tools and Techniques
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Implementation and Evaluation
Spotlights
Spotlight on Decision Making Tools and Techniques
"In the long run, decisions made in an informed and coherent manner will be more likely to produce satisfactory outcomes than those made without a full understanding of the decision, and of decision making in general".
Spotlight on Cost Benefit Analysis
Spotlight on Implementation and Evaluation
"All decision options have resource implications - even the decision to do nothing frees resources which could otherwise be used."
Steve Cooke and Nigel Slack - Making Management Decisions (1991)
Going Further
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