Decision Making

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The process of making effective decisions, including weighing alternatives, evaluating risks and benefits, and identifying and addressing biases and assumptions.

Goal setting: The process of identifying and establishing specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound objectives, which act as a roadmap to achieve desired outcomes.
Prioritization: The act of organizing tasks or objectives in order of importance or urgency, based on their impact on overall goals and objectives.
Task analysis: The process of breaking down complex tasks into smaller, manageable components to identify essential requirements, resources and timelines.
Procrastination: A habit of delaying or postponing tasks that are perceived to be difficult, unpleasant or overwhelming.
Time management tools: Various techniques and systems used to manage, schedule and allocate time efficiently, such as time blocking, Pomodoro technique, Eisenhower matrix, etc.
Decision-making models: Structured approaches to evaluate alternatives, make choices and reach conclusions, such as SWOT analysis, cost-benefit analysis, decision tree, etc.
Mental frameworks: Cognitive shortcuts, heuristics and biases that influence our decision-making processes, such as confirmation bias, sunk cost fallacy, availability heuristic, etc.
Emotional intelligence: The ability to recognize, understand and manage one's emotions and those of others, which impacts decision-making in interpersonal and high-pressure situations.
Conflict resolution: Strategies and techniques used to resolve disputes and disagreements between individuals or groups, which can have an impact on decision-making processes.
Continuous learning: The habit of seeking out new information, skills and perspectives to stay agile, responsive and adaptable to changing circumstances and challenges.
Proactive Decision Making: A proactive approach involves identifying and analyzing potential problems and making decisions to prevent them from happening.
Reactive Decision Making: A reactive approach involves making decisions in response to an unexpected problem or situation.
Intuitive Decision Making: Intuitive decision making refers to making decisions based on gut feelings or instincts, without relying on data or analysis.
Rational Decision Making: A rational approach involves a structured, analytical process of gathering and evaluating information to arrive at a logical and well-informed decision.
Emotional Decision Making: Emotional decision making is making decisions based on feelings rather than logical reasoning, such as choosing a career or purchasing a product based on personal preferences.
Group Decision Making: Group decision making involves multiple individuals working together to make a decision that benefits the organization or team.
Consensus Decision Making: Consensus decision making is reaching a decision through collaborative agreement and compromise.
Incremental Decision Making: An incremental approach involves making a series of small decisions that lead to achieving a larger goal.
Creative Decision Making: Creative decision making involves using innovative and outside-the-box thinking to solve problems and make decisions.
Tactical Decision Making: Tactical decision making involves making quick decisions on the spot in response to changing circumstances or events.
"In psychology, decision-making is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible alternative options."
"Decision-making (also spelled decision making and decisionmaking)"
"It could be either rational or irrational."
"The decision-making process is a reasoning process based on assumptions of values, preferences, and beliefs of the decision-maker."
"Every decision-making process produces a final choice."
"The final choice may or may not prompt action."
"Research about decision-making is also published under the label problem solving."
"Particularly in European psychological research."
"A final choice"
"Several possible alternative options."
"It could be either rational or irrational."
"Assumptions of values, preferences, and beliefs of the decision-maker."
"Decision making and decisionmaking."
"The final choice may or may not prompt action."
"Research about decision-making is also published under the label problem solving."
"Particularly in European psychological research."
"The selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible alternative options."
"A reasoning process."
"Assumptions of values, preferences, and beliefs of the decision-maker."
"The cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible alternative options."