#Decisionmakingchallenge

The most important topic of discussion in my coaching and training sessions is how to develop decision making ability when you have limited resources, limited information, when you are in a state of fear, selecting one good opportunity from couple of good opportunities, remaining calm versus aggressive, differentiating employee while hiring on the basis of energetic – ready to learn candidate versus experience candidate, starting a business venture versus continuing with job, shutting down the business versus pursuing the business during tough challenges, spending quality time with family versus taking calls while sitting with family by thinking it can be a call which may matters the most and many other situations where you get confused to take actions.

Every moment we are making decisions in our life, every decision is a product of our habits and priorities.

Our achievements, failures and struggles are the outcome of the decisions we made in past or currently making in our life.

I work on simply clear but result oriented methodology which is still helping me as well as my coaching clients and training participants in their course of life. To know the methodology kindly go through the followings carefully and patiently it may change your life:

Any decision which takes you towards your goal (both professional and personal) is the best decision even if it may makes you a bit uncomfortable. This approach helps you to take decisions quickly.

Behind every decision there must be a specific goal because without specific goal you will never able make a result oriented decision.

Decisions which are made in confusion keep haunting you throughout your life. Confused mind is more dangerous than ignorance.

In every decision most of the time we come across- easy thing to do versus right thing to do. Always choose the latter approach i.e right thing to do because such decisions bears long lasting fruits and it is the best way to create win-win situation for you and others.

Never regret if your decision backfires but learn from it and give your best to correct it (for re-correcting the decision you may involve others for guidance). More your regret, more you will lose confidence in yourself. Even Thomas Edison was thousand times wrong in his experiment before inventing an electric bulb, had he regretted his mistakes he could have certainly left his experiment in between.

Sometimes decision is not bad but timing and execution of decision making is.

E.g. sometimes you waste your energy by shouting at your employee over his/her low working performance which has cost you some money in business, you think if you didn’t act like this then he/she may not understand his/her mistake, this may sound perfect but this can possibly cost you a huge loss i.e losing an employee who may have turned into a great asset. Other option is to investing the same high energy to know the real reason behind the low performance, to train him well within a stipulated time and transform him/her into a high performing employee and this can also compensate the losses in the future. Confident and well trained person yield more revenues than expected. But if someone repeatedly doing the same mistake then better to have new talent than such a lethargic team member.

Best decision is to not to leave anything in between till you get desirous result. Sometime you get things done as per your plan (within time period) and sometime you have to change the strategy to reach your destination which can take some more time and patience too.

Some decision needs conscious planning but don’t over think upon it. Planning means - you are making decision based on your command over the subject, knowing the actual strength as well as weakness of yourself/ team, confidence to take it through and having mindset to tackle the risk.

Over thinking means you doubt your capabilities or don’t trust other team mates for a particular work (if you are leading a team) that means you are unaware of the strength and weaknesses of yourself or your team.

“If Life is a car and then decision making is the art of driving”

Always remember you are the best person to take decision for your own life.

 With Personal Regards,

Anuj Sharma