Decision-Making Tools for Leaders and Teams

Decisions involve risk. As the leader, you’re ultimately accountable for the hundreds of decisions made by your teams every day. Even if it were possible for you to be involved in every decision, it wouldn’t be the best use of your time or your team’s capability. As experienced leaders, it is tempting to serve as the arbiter on critical and complex matters; yet a wise leader knows this is not only demotivating for the team but leads to poorer results. In a complex domain, the more varied the perspectives, the better the quality of our decisions. So how do we, as leaders, help ensure our teams are making good decisions? How do we help them avoid the “loudest person wins” syndrome while simultaneously ensuring not every decision is a decision by committee or the result of groupthink? Join Doc Norton and discover some straightforward tools that identify appropriate decision-making approaches for a given situation, who should be part of the decision-making process, and how to ensure rapid, high-quality collective decisions.