Conscious Decision Making
Chances are your leadership team has made a lot of decisions over the past few weeks as you navigate #covid. Have you taken the time to consider and summarize how you’re making these decisions?
What if you take 15 - 30 minutes as you close out your workweek by reflecting on the questions you asked yourselves, and in what order, as you made decisions?
Here’s why that could be useful to you:
Explain your position: Chances are, one or more stakeholder groups won’t fully agree with your decision. When you are conscious about how you made the decision -- the questions you asked and answered -- you have the basis of an explanation to those groups. When you can explain, they tend to understand. (This one inspired by @julia.rebholz)
Expedite your next good decision: If you’re at peace with your decision, and you documented the questions you asked and the order in which you asked them, then you have the blueprint for your next quandary. Things are changing fast: you need all the headstarts you can get.
Stay purposeful: Your decisions show everyone if you’re acting according to your articulated purpose and values. Did your questions reflect the priorities and values inherent in your purpose? Is there a layer you missed? What questions were particularly useful to remind you of what’s truly important?
Get purposeful: Don’t yet have articulated purpose or values? The questions you ask yourself when making a decision illuminate what you hold as important. This is a great place to start your process of launching a purpose. (Also inspired by my hero @julia.rebholz)
Expand Your Organization's Decision Making Capacity: Have a powerful set of questions? Empower others in your organization by providing that as a guide, and trust that they’ll use it to make aligned, balanced and purposeful decisions, too.
You’ve earned a quiet moment: Pausing to reflect not only gives you an opportunity to lock in learning, it also replenishes your personal energy and can nourish your team dynamic. Yes, you can do this together by video chat. And yes, it can take as little as 15 minutes.
Other ideas or experience? Get in touch!
