Over the week-end, my son and his fiancé came into town. As we headed to one of many pre-wedding take-care-of-business stops, all of which required decisions, I asked the bride and groom-to-be if they were familiar with different styles, makes and models of decision-making.
The answer was swift.
"Nope, not a clue!”
The other evening, I attended a webinar and one of the topics of discussion had to do with decision-making styles. This topic intrigues me given my work with clients who are constantly confronted with important career decisions, such as:
Stay at my job?
Find another job?
Quit my job?
Accept the offer?
Relocate?
Resign?
Go back to school?
Stay at home with the new baby?
Buy a business?
Build a business?
Work full-time?
Work part-time?
Retire now? Retire later?
Finish a degree, certification or designation?
Drop out of the MBA program?
Start my doctorate?
Move to another business unit?
Switch careers?
And on and on and on with the vast number of career decisions workers are faced with today. For the purposes of this blog post, I decided to do some online research. Shown below are a few decision-making styles, makes and models I discovered in my search:
Agonizer/Agony
Authoritative
Avoidant
Collective-participation
Command
Compliance
Conceptual
Conditional
Consensus
Consultative/Consultation
Decision trees
Decisive
Delayed
Delegative
Dependent
Escape
Evader
Experimental
Fatalist
Flexible
Hierarchic
Impulse/Impulsive
Individualistic
Intuitive
Irreversible
Mystic
Pareto Analysis
Play-it-safe
Plunger
Plus-Minus-Interesting (PMI)
Predisposed
Proactive
Procrastination
Pros and Cons
Quick Decision-making
Rational
Reversible
Six-Thinking Hats
Spontaneous
Submissive
Systematic
Trial and Error
Decisions, decisions, decisions. How do you go about making decisions in your professional life? As a job seeker, what decision-making style works best for you?
"Life is a sum of all your choices” ~ Albert Camus Quotes
cross-posted billiesucherblog
No comments:
Post a Comment