Strategic Decision Making - How is Your Decision Quality?

Posted by Robert Wheeler

As a father you hope you children have good strategic decision making skills. The decision quality they have throughout their life is developed during the teenage years as they stretch their wings and begin to challenge authority. As a parent you struggle with what to do when your children cross the line.

What do you do as an adult? How do you measure decisions and how they affect you as a person, for your career, in your relationship and ultimately your own life.

Well there are ways to ensure that the decisions you make stay congruent with who and what you are and who and what you want to become. You have to remain congruent to your life’s values, goals and relationships to ensure that you to NOT enter into a state of CHAOS as a result of your decisions.

Each of us has created chaos at some point in our life as a result of our decisions. Think of how that made you feel. Did you find yourself with just a psychological issue, or did that decision ultimately manifest itself in physiological symptoms? Most of us when we are experiencing chaos will eventually fall into physiological symptoms if we fail to address the problems that initially caused the chaos. It can be as simple as bouncing a check or as complex as hiding a personal problem. Our problems or challenges can create long term distress if we fail to address them.

Well, how do you address the problems prior to them becoming a problem. How do you stay out of a state of chaos? There are a number of things that you can do as a lifestyle to ensure that you remain congruent.

Make sure your decisions agree with your core values.
Make sure your decisions agree with your goals.
Make sure your decisions agree with you company’s goals.
Make sure your decisions agree with your personal philosophy.

The critical thing about your decisions is that you will be measured directly by the quality of those decisions on a daily basis.

Your career, family and relationships will be affected by your daily decision quality. Take the time to ensure that they are congruent with who you are. Become good at strategic decision making.

Rob Wheeler.