If you work with or for someone who is indecisive, it can be frustrating. Even worse, it can be extremely wasteful if you routinely start down a path only to have a decision flipped and your progress erased.
What can you do to clear the fog and keep things moving forward?
Practice asking these six helpful questions and you will reduce the back-tracking while simultaneously improving the decisions and developing clear thinking skills for all involved:
- What specifically are we trying to accomplish?
- What criteria and priorities are most important in making this decision?
- Are there other alternatives that we should be considering?
- Why is this alternative the best given the criteria and priorities we discussed?
- What might go wrong if we choose this alternative?
- How serious and likely are these potential problems?
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