Decision making is an essential leadership skill. If you can learn how to make timely, well-considered decisions, then you can lead your team to well-deserved success. If, however, you make poor decisions, your time as a leader will be brutally short.
The 40+ techniques explained in this section help you to make the best decisions possible with the information available. These tools help you map out the likely consequences of decisions, balance different factors, and choose the best courses of action to take.
Once your are comfortable with these tools, you can provide coaching and mentoring to your subordinates as part of their own professional development. See the URL listed following this description.
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Editor’s Note: There are many resources for the tools and techniques presented in this series of articles. A few examples follow:
Mind Tools:
http://www.mindtools.com
Learn Out Loud:
http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video/Self-Development
Business Balls:
http://www.businessballs.com/
Project Management Guru:
http://www.projectmanagementguru.com/index.html
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