Decision-Making Problem-Solving Tools and Techniques

The Facts Are Our Friends

The first critical step in grounded decision-making problem-solving effectiveness is to gather the facts. This step cannot be skipped. If you do not have correct facts, all of them, you will not be able to make correct decisions. That is, unless you are exceptionally lucky. No matter how carefully you plan your route, if your map is not up to date, you will get lost.

Yet gathering the facts is often not sufficient. If you allow yourself to lean a certain way before looking at the facts, you may misinterpret them. That is why it is imperative to gather all of the relevant information necessary to make decisions, without allowing any feelings to interfere. It is well known how easy it is to only see what we want to see. Your goal here should be simply to gather and write down cold, dry facts.

There are two main categories of facts: empirical and personal. Empirical facts are things that are measured, documented, not open to serious debate. If you are choosing a career, for example, you know that medical school requires a certain amount of time and money. Those are facts. Statistics are also facts for our purposes. Statistically, medical school graduates can expect a certain level of income or a certain percentage of job security. This would differ from art school graduates.

Personal facts are your own talents, interests, personality makeup, family background, economic needs and so forth. If you have to choose between medical school and art school, relevant facts would include if you like art, if you are good at science, if you can afford medical school, if you can't afford the risks of a career in art.

Among the facts you will gather are the options you have. When making any decision, you are choosing from various options. The most common mistake is to not gather all possible options. When you think you have all of your possible choices in front of you, simply ask your self following question: "is there any other possibility available to me?" More often than not, you'll discover new options that are even better than the ones you knew all along.

This process of gathering the facts is the most important, and can be the most complicated one. Right Choice Software is a fantastic tool to guide you in this crucial process. It challenges you to uncover all of the relevant facts, and helps you gave each one proper weight in your decision-making process. One decision you can make right now easily is to decide to try out this program. Simply click on the link below and download Right Choice for a free trial.