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Suggest You - Successful Business Decision Making
After a show wraps, your entire booth staff will want to leave as soon as possible. Some may even book return flights that coincide with the end of the show. Avoid laying the burden of tear-down, packing and shipping on one person. In your pre-show planning, be sure that staff time and travel allows for adequate booth tear-down, packing, and shipping.Never tear-down your booth before the show is over. This projects an unprofessional and "I can't wait to get out of here!" message to those last-minute attendees, who by the way, may have a need to h
DETERMINING THE CRITERIA AND EVALUATING EACH OPTION
STEP 4: Identify no more than 4 or 5 criteria that you will use to determine how well your options achieve the goal you’ve established.
Decision criteria provide checkpoints
Those who work over 50 hours a week have an average higher blood pressure of 29% of those who work a standard 40-hour work-week. Now then this is unfortunate because most of the people who are at the top of their food chain and love their profession and are really good at what they do work more than 50 hours per week.And those who work the minimum of 40-hours a week in our society often are barely getting buy and have two members in their family making money. So, this poses a huge issue.If those who are barely getting by have lower blood p
-- Define your decision and come up with alternatives
-- Determine what criteria you’ll need to help you make the decision
-- Make the decision
"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin." – Ivan Turgenev, famous 19th-century Russian novelist, poet and playwright
DEFINING THE DECISION AND ALTERNATIVESSTEP 1: What is it that you need to make a decision about? Maybe you have several choices to make, but start with one. Ask yourself a couple of questions that are applicable to your situation, such as:
“What do I want to be doing for the next 6 months?” “What business am I going to start?” “What aspect of my business do I want to grow?”
STEP 2: Determine your primary goal and write it down. For example, you might want to grow your business over the next six months. Therefore, your goal sentence might be: “I want to earn 25% more within the next 6 months.”
STEP 3: After you’ve written your goal sentence, begin brain-storming a list of ideas for how to achieve the goal. Below are some rules for brainstorming:
-- Write all ideas down – ideas are neither bad or good--they’re just ideas!
-- Do not judge or analyze the idea – just write it down.
-- Make the process fun!
You do not have to generate a list of ideas in one sitting, but you may need to set some limits around how much time to spend creating your list. Be creative in how you capture your ideas. Carry a small notebook with you so when an idea comes to you, you’ll be prepared and write it down immediately. I put stickies (Post-It notes) and pens in my purse, car, and bedroom, so whenever and wherever I generate an idea I have a way to capture it. When I’m ready, I collect the stickies and add them to a master list I keep in my office. Just do whatever is easiest for you!
After you feel you’ve completed your options list (or when the time you’ve given yourself to make the list has run out), ask someone you trust to read over your ideas. This person needs to be someone who has a positive attitude and is supportive of your efforts! The person may come up with some options you hadn’t considered. Write them down! Remember, you’re not judging the ideas--just recording them at this stage.
DETERMINING THE CRITERIA AND EVALUATING EACH OPTION
STEP 4: Identify no more than 4 or 5 criteria that you will use to determine how well your options achieve the goal you’ve established.
Decision criteria provide checkpoints
After working with and learning from some of the most successful companies in the world for over 20 years, About Recruiting Inc. has seen several challenges facing hiring managers and those people on the interviewing team: Most companies lack a formal sourcing strategy and end up hiring the "best of the bunch" rather than THE BEST. In a robust economy or tight labour market, it is commonly assumed that the best people are working. In other words, they are passive candidates that need to be located. The wording in t
DEFINING THE DECISION AND ALTERNATIVESSTEP 1: What is it that you need to make a decision about? Maybe you have several choices to make, but start with one. Ask yourself a couple of questions that are applicable to your situation, such as:
“What do I want to be doing for the next 6 months?” “What business am I going to start?” “What aspect of my business do I want to grow?”
STEP 2: Determine your primary goal and write it down. For example, you might want to grow your business over the next six months. Therefore, your goal sentence might be: “I want to earn 25% more within the next 6 months.”
STEP 3: After you’ve written your goal sentence, begin brain-storming a list of ideas for how to achieve the goal. Below are some rules for brainstorming:
-- Write all ideas down – ideas are neither bad or good--they’re just ideas!
-- Do not judge or analyze the idea – just write it down.
-- Make the process fun!
You do not have to generate a list of ideas in one sitting, but you may need to set some limits around how much time to spend creating your list. Be creative in how you capture your ideas. Carry a small notebook with you so when an idea comes to you, you’ll be prepared and write it down immediately. I put stickies (Post-It notes) and pens in my purse, car, and bedroom, so whenever and wherever I generate an idea I have a way to capture it. When I’m ready, I collect the stickies and add them to a master list I keep in my office. Just do whatever is easiest for you!
After you feel you’ve completed your options list (or when the time you’ve given yourself to make the list has run out), ask someone you trust to read over your ideas. This person needs to be someone who has a positive attitude and is supportive of your efforts! The person may come up with some options you hadn’t considered. Write them down! Remember, you’re not judging the ideas--just recording them at this stage.
DETERMINING THE CRITERIA AND EVALUATING EACH OPTION
STEP 4: Identify no more than 4 or 5 criteria that you will use to determine how well your options achieve the goal you’ve established.
Decision criteria provide checkpoints
Okay, so you've figured out what kind of meeting is needed, you've planned well and you have all the right materials. How about the meeting itself? How can you be sure the meeting you've so carefully planned and prepared actually comes off as expected?The checklist below can help you through the process.- Begin on time, clearly stating the meeting objective and your intentions to stick to type, time, topic, agenda- Obtain agreement on the agenda items and times for each item- Agenda changes must be consistent with meeting obj
STEP 3: After you’ve written your goal sentence, begin brain-storming a list of ideas for how to achieve the goal. Below are some rules for brainstorming:
-- Write all ideas down – ideas are neither bad or good--they’re just ideas!
-- Do not judge or analyze the idea – just write it down.
-- Make the process fun!
You do not have to generate a list of ideas in one sitting, but you may need to set some limits around how much time to spend creating your list. Be creative in how you capture your ideas. Carry a small notebook with you so when an idea comes to you, you’ll be prepared and write it down immediately. I put stickies (Post-It notes) and pens in my purse, car, and bedroom, so whenever and wherever I generate an idea I have a way to capture it. When I’m ready, I collect the stickies and add them to a master list I keep in my office. Just do whatever is easiest for you!
After you feel you’ve completed your options list (or when the time you’ve given yourself to make the list has run out), ask someone you trust to read over your ideas. This person needs to be someone who has a positive attitude and is supportive of your efforts! The person may come up with some options you hadn’t considered. Write them down! Remember, you’re not judging the ideas--just recording them at this stage.
DETERMINING THE CRITERIA AND EVALUATING EACH OPTION
STEP 4: Identify no more than 4 or 5 criteria that you will use to determine how well your options achieve the goal you’ve established.
Decision criteria provide checkpoints
Hear the term "Real Estate Investing" and the typical person probably imagines some Herculean figure who has tons of cash, guts, or both. The truth is real estate is blown way out of proportion for some in terms of its sheer mystique. The bottom line is real estate is the number 1 way for the average Joe and Jane to add to their bottom line in a big way. The first thing you should do is think differently. Instead of looking at someone like Donald Trump and say, "Wow, I can never be as smart as that guy." Transform your mind to say "What do I
After you feel you’ve completed your options list (or when the time you’ve given yourself to make the list has run out), ask someone you trust to read over your ideas. This person needs to be someone who has a positive attitude and is supportive of your efforts! The person may come up with some options you hadn’t considered. Write them down! Remember, you’re not judging the ideas--just recording them at this stage.
DETERMINING THE CRITERIA AND EVALUATING EACH OPTION
STEP 4: Identify no more than 4 or 5 criteria that you will use to determine how well your options achieve the goal you’ve established.
Decision criteria provide checkpoints
There are many reasons why people may want to hire a chauffeur. This can range from special occasions, (such as weddings or prom night) important business people who may need to be collected from the airport, brought to their hotel and be shown around the city, or some people who would simply like to be driven to a special anniversary dinner. Many chauffeurs may even be hired permanently and privately by families who wish to be driven to work or special events. Other private individuals who employ chauffeurs permanently include large companies or organi
DETERMINING THE CRITERIA AND EVALUATING EACH OPTION
STEP 4: Identify no more than 4 or 5 criteria that you will use to determine how well your options achieve the goal you’ve established.
Decision criteria provide checkpoints to measure your options against your goal. Typical criteria fall into two categories:
Do-ability (do I have the money, time, expertise?)
Likelihood of Success (do they meet the goal in time, revenue, fun factor?).
STEP 5: Using the criteria you’ve defined, evaluate each option. This process can be as simple, or complex, as you desire, and may be qualitative or quantitative. You may need to allow some time to experiment a bit with some ideas to test them out and determine how well they meet each criteria.
MAKING THE DECISION
STEP 6: Sometimes the winner(s) is obvious…you’ll just pick it and go with it. Or, you may immediately notice certain ideas drop to the bottom of the list and just need to be deleted because they do not support your business needs. When one option is not standing out among the others, you may have to prioritize the options by weighting the criteria to help you evaluate the alternatives and make your decision.
BONUS STEP: Keep in mind, just because an idea may not fit with your current focus; it may serve you later. Create a place to store those ideas--an “idea vault” to tap into the next time you need good ideas!
Terri’s keys to successful decision-making
-- Write it all down!
-- Clarify the decision you are making
-- Know your goals
-- Be creative in coming up with options
-- Trust your gut
-- Don’t procrastinate!
Copyright 2002-2003, Terri Zwierzynski - Accel Innovation, Inc.
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