This document outlines an 8-step decision-making model called the "Decision-making Loop" to help with making effective decisions. The steps include identifying the problem, gathering information, exploring options, evaluating options, choosing an option, implementing the decision, monitoring the impact, and modifying the decision if needed. Taking a systematic approach to decision-making by considering alternatives, criteria, and outcomes can improve the situation and lead to success, even if the outcome is uncertain. Regular evaluation and monitoring of decisions is important.

2. Good Decision-
making is an
Essential Skill for
Effective Leadership

3. You do not really know
where a road will lead you
until you take it.
There are no guarantees.
This is one of the most
important things you need
to realize about life.

4. Making Decisions is a Difficult
Process that Consists of
Identifying and Selecting
Alternatives, Criteria and Possible
Outcomes, to Improve a Situation.
Whether Decisions are
Straightforward or Complex a
Methodical and Systematic
Approach will Lead to Success.

5. Decision making is something
you do morning, noon and night.
Making decisions is a part of
your life whether you like it or
not. You make decisions all the
time.
You can become quite adept
and get plenty of practice in
developing the necessary skills
to help you in making the right
decisions.

7. Have YOU Always had Problems to
Make Difficult Decisions?
Here is some advice to show you how
to take the pain out of making difficult
decisions, to make your best choices
and get it over and done with.
This Decision-making Model is in Eight
Steps, which I called it “Decision-
making Loop” Its Show You a Logical
Structured Methodology for Making a
Decision.

8. “It does not matter which side of the
fence you get off on sometimes. What
matters most is getting off. You cannot
make progress without making decisions.”
- Jim Rohn

9. Decision-making Loop
Identify the
Problem
Gathering the
Information
Explore the
Options
Evaluate the
Option
Monitor the
Impact
Choose the
Option
Implement the
Decision
Modify the
Decision

10. The First Step towards a decision making
process is to identify the problem.
This Essential to Understand What to Decide
about.
Until you have a clear understanding of the
problem or decision to be made, it is
meaningless to proceed.
If the problem is stated incorrectly or unclearly
then your decisions will be wrong.
Decision-making Loop
Identify the
Problem

11. Decision-making Loop
Identify the
Problem

12. All necessary available facts, opinion, data
have to be collected.
This is important because sometimes
solutions can come out from these out-of-
the-box ideas.
You would also have to do adequate
research to come up with the necessary
facts that would aid in solving the problem.
Decision-making Loop
Gathering the
Information

13. Ask the 5 W's: What, Who, When,
Where, and Why.
 What is the situation?
 Who are the people involved?
 When did this happen?
 Where is this leading?
 Why are you in this situation?
These are just some of the possible
questions to ask to know more about
your situation. This is important.
Oftentimes, the reason for indecision
is the lack of information about a
situation.
Decision-making Loop
Gathering the
Information

14. What are all the possible options?
Several of these may have variations.
Sometimes the options are few, but
sometimes they are numerous.
But what do you do when you think
that the situation offers no options?
This is the time that you create your
own. Make your creative mind work.
Decision-making Loop
Explore the
Options

15. The most promising options should be
discussed and analyzed to determine
how they may be applied and what
results they will produce.
Consider how options relate to one
another, and whether some options
have common components or make
implementation of other options
easier.
In parallel with this analysis, identify
options that need more research or
clarification.
Decision-making Loop
Explore the
Options

16. After carefully considering each
option, select the one that seems
most appropriate based on each of
these factors: your own values, the
positive and negative consequences,
your present and future goals, and the
effect on others.
Now choose the best one option
among those which are explore.
Remember that there are no
guarantees and wrong decisions are
always at hindsight. So choose to
decide and believe that you are
choosing the best option at this point
in time.
Decision-making Loop
Choose the
Option

17. Evaluate your decisions from each
and every aspect because what looks
good on paper or sounds good, may
not work when you actually evaluate
it.
Evaluation is useful for uncovering
the risks involved or difficulties
which need to be overcome when
implementing the option.
Strategies can then be developed to
manage those risks.
Decision-making Loop
Evaluate the
Option

18. A decision has no value unless you
implement it.
To implement the decision means to
put into action.
The process of decision is not
complete until it is implemented and
you have learnt to live with the
consequences.
Decision-making Loop
Implement the
Decision

19. Part of the implementation phase is
the monitoring or follow up.
Just making the decision and
implementing it is not the end of the
decision making process, it is very
important to monitor your decision
regularly.
At this stage, you have to keep a
close eye on the progress of the
solution taken and also whether it
has led to the results you expected.
Decision-making Loop
Monitor the
Impact

20. Whether it is the Right Decision or
Not, only time can tell. But Do Not
Regret it whatever the outcome.
Instead, Learn from it and Remember
that You always have the chance to
make better Decisions in the Future.
Decision-making Loop
Monitor the
Impact

21. It consists in determining necessary
changes and makes supplementary
decision for adopting the most
urgent one there by modifying the
decision.
Decision-making Loop
Modify the
Decision

22. “When making a decision of minor importance, I
have always found it advantageous to consider all
the pros and cons. In vital matters, however,
such as the choice of a mate or a profession,
the decision should come from the unconscious,
from somewhere within ourselves.
In the important decisions of personal life, we
should be governed, I think, by the deep inner
needs of our nature”
- Sigmund Freud

23. So! The next time you have to take a decision, try
to use this ‘Decision-making Loop’

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from the Book
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