Decision making is an everyday problem for entrepreneurs, in fact, it has been said that their job is precisely to solve problems by making the right decisions.
Although it is true that conflictive problems should not always be those that must be solved, there will always be a situation that is expected to be positively modified and that contains an element of discussion between the present and the possible future, for this reason we will simply refer to situations as problems..
The decision-making path is made up of eight consecutive steps that somehow guarantee that you will overcome the problem.
1. Define the most problematic situation: this simply refers to choosing from the universe of your company's daily problems the most complex ones in order to somehow be able to set priorities.
2. Define if you can intervene for your solution if you have control over it. This is a step in which you must be very intelligent learning to distinguish what is within your reach and what is not. There's no use wasting all of your team's energy on work that can't be done because it's beyond your reach.
3. In the chosen situation, specify which is the most serious problem; define priority. Here it is a question of going deeper into the selection of the problem to be solved. At this time there are more selection tools and a more strict and serious criterion.
4. Identify possible causes of the problem and verify them: This is a work of analysis of the information you have and documentation as accurate as possible so as not to bias your result.
5. Identify true causes: Discard those that do not turn out to have too much evidence of being the real causes and work with those that you have fully identified.
6. Define what is most convenient, set a goal. Very well, it is time to decide how far you want to take this problem or what objective you are going to pursue. How deep do you want to go?
7. Set yourself up for action: Put your thoughts into practice and devise an action plan that is effective and efficient to tackle the problem to the level you have defined in your objective. This action must be designed in such a way that the rest of the organization knows about it and that it adjusts to its general programming.
8. Control what is being done to ensure that what you set out to achieve is achieved. Finally, make sure that this action is correctly carried out by those who carry it out, lest you inadvertently end up creating a bigger problem. Evaluate the evolution of the problem very well and if the objective is being achieved.
These simple steps can save you a lot of headaches and over time and experience you will be able to experiment with new techniques to tackle more complex problems that involve more elements.
