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What is a Decision Making Process to Problem Solving?
| Guest post by: SarahBeth White |
Article Overview: There are many approaches to problem solving and making decisions. This short article offers some suggestions for defining parameters as you approach your problem solving/decision making situations. Taking adequate time to research and brainstorm answers to your problems is a key step to any decision making situation you find yourself in whether business or personal.
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What is a Decision Making Process to Problem Solving?
To Be Determined:
What is your problem?
What are some solutions to your problem?
What is the best solution?
What effective actions can be/need to be taken to implement your solution?
Are you dealing with relevant issues, significant issues or focusing only on the visible symptoms?
Find and define your real problem:
Take adequate time for careful thought, brain storming and deliberation; do not hurry through this step because the reason for the problem has to be defined and change needs to be made.
What is best when you look at long term goals and visions?
You must change the "But we have always done it that way" mentality if progress is to be made.
What impact will your alternative have? Always consider whether you are dealing with short or long term change. Do you have all the viable information needed to produce a solution? Make your decision with the facts in hand but be prepared to change it, if/when you get new information.
Discern a variety of solutions:
Come up with a variety of solutions for the problem. Do not include any either-or plans. Test core beliefs to develop a solution, even if later it is proven to be the wrong road. Take action. Taking no action at all is a solution. But be sure the problem is not being avoided because it is unpleasant to deal with or may step on some toes.
Determine the best solution by asking the following questions:
Which of your solutions offers the best results with the least effort? Even the best choice comes with risks. Have you thought through all alternatives?
Has only one solution been developed? Be wary of having just one solution as it is very rare indeed.
When attempting to change visions or goals, are you looking at the big picture. Changing habits may have to be done slowly and steadily.
Develop action steps:
Solutions should take care of underlying issues: Do not just put a band aid on the problem to make implementation of your decision more comfortable.
Plug in the human factor, if a solution looks good on paper. People are the most important factor. Your solution may be the absolute best but if your people cannot understand it, how can they carry it out?
Provide leadership to make the changes: Find the right people to implement new goals.
Educate and re-train if necessary; do not take the wrong direction because it is less controversial.
Do not waste your time selling the decision. Instead, determine the source of hesitancy in processing change. Communicate the actions needed and assume leadership, if necessary, to implement change.
When solutions affect people, the solutions will affect productivity. Until employees see that this solution helps them achieve their own goals, as well as assisting them in their job, you may meet resistance.
After dealing with my own decision making problem, the outcome was to join a topnotch internet marketing business while searching for a traditional job. My life is more enjoyable because of that decision. I am happier and more fulfilled because I now have time to spend with my son; time to go hiking with my dog, Mo; and time to spend with my close friends and family. Time = Freedom. It is an amazing system quite unique to other marketing businesses. Good luck in your own decision making experiences.
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About the Author: SarahBeth White RSS for SarahBeth's articles - Visit SarahBeth's website Considered to be highly educated. Enjoy traveling in the U.S. learning about our different cultures. Staunch Republican and Southern Baptist which is considered by some to be a lethal combination. Belonging to the ranks of those laid off, I am rebuilding my life so my writing will soon reflect as much. Burning desire in my soul to write but for two years now the only writing I have done is resumes and cover letters. Cattle on 1000 Hills as my blopspot name http://cattleon1000hills.blogspot.com, Facebook, have lain dormant too long. They are about to bust loose! My friends think I am crazy or brave or both but I have decided to leave the comforts of my 'home' and move to the mountains where I always planned on 'retiring'. I can enjoy hiking with my dog, Mo, sitting in front of my potbellied stove reading and writing, and sitting outside writing with the music of nature in my ears instead of all the sounds of the city which now annoy me. Mo, a Newffie, looks like a bear and we hope to see a black bear but not up close and personal. Mo is about the size of a smaller black bear so he will have to wear the hunting vests I custom made for him when we hike so no one mistakes him for one. I am so excited about our new life and long to begin writing from all that has been saved up during this dormancy. Click here to visit SarahBeth's website   Serious No Nos for Homeschooling Parents Part Four of Four Part Series What is the Art to Decision Making Insights from a Former Homeschooling Mom Part One of Four Part Series What Lucrative Internet Marketing Business Opportunity is the Best Waiting for Godot Greatest Play of the 20th century Not |
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