Gut-Checks

Some people are comfortable making decisions quickly. Many others are not.

We all have the capacity to make decisions in several ways.

• We can go with the gut-check instinct.

• We can go with our feelings and intuition.

• We can go with the logical process.

Many of us default to one of these, but we all have the capacity to use any of them to make decisions, and some will work better (or worse) in certain situations. For example, logic is going to give you the right decision more often, but it takes longer, so it can’t always be used.

Give your people the opportunity to get it right more often. Don’t put anyone on the spot in meetings to give a response to newly-presented information or options. If you want people to speak up with intelligent solutions, give them think-time in advance, e.g., “I want us to decide at Friday’s meeting which option we are going to go with on the project, so please do any research you want to do before the meeting.”

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