Making the Call (Selecting the best option) You have gathered information and sifted through the piles of reports, documents, input from people and management perspectives. Now you are ready to make the decision. Don’t hesitate Making decisive choices is critical to getting things done in a timely manner. While it is hard to know exactly [...]
Develop potential solutions Now comes the step where you start brainstorming decisions and possible options that may generate positive outcomes. In a pinch you will move through these steps quickly. When you have time, you can think a little more on these items. Decision-making is not as involved as Strategic Planning, but it impacts your [...]
Continue reading about Decisions – Analyzing Possible Solutions
When decision time comes there are always limiting items that come in to play. Knowing the limits and constraints will improve your decision making by placing boundaries around the extents of what could be done. These boundaries may include time constraints that limit the time you can take in the progress of the change or [...]
Continue reading about Decisions – Identify Limiting Factors and Constraints
Our topic is decisions. As we all know, decisions are based on the available information you have to process prior to making the call. If you have very little information to go on, you run the risk of making the wrong choice. If you gather too much, then sometimes it clouds the water. Some decisions [...]
You cannot decide what to do next until you know what or where there is a problem or opportunity for progress. Identifying these is the first step. Problems and issues that come up are easy to identify. They present themselves every day and just need to be addressed. But what exactly are you looking for? [...]
Managers and line workers are called on to make decisions every day. Some are small and can be processed quickly and others are major efforts. Learning to make good decisions takes time and usually takes a lot of bad decisions into account. How do you work through the decisions you make? Do you have a [...]
I have written extensively on delivering the messages that Managers have to deliver. Here are a few links to read from my past writings Can we talk? – Principles of CAD Management Henri Fayol (1841-1925) was a French mining engineer who went on to become Director of Mines with over 1000 employees. His company flourished [...]
Continue reading about Communication – Delivering the Message
Communication has so many obstacles. Think about it. Even simple communication takes so many steps. You have to develop the message in your mind then define how you are going to communicate it (written, verbal, etc.) then deliver the message. The person receiving it has to hear, see or read it (or even feel it [...]
Redundancy Works I have commented before that managers should repeat themselves often. Not so much making the exact same statements, but sharing the same information in differing ways. Multiple times. In a recent article in Harvard Business Review (Effective Managers say the same thing twice – or more, May 2011) Tsedal Neeley and Paul Leonardi [...]
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