Strategies That Favor Best Decision-Making

Decision-making is a critical skill people must acquire as they navigate their lives. Various researchers explain that humans spend 37% of their time daily making decisions that influence their present and future behaviors. Decision-making is important in the whole sphere of a human being's life, hence the need for individuals to learn to be better at their decision-making. Making better decisions is integral to personal, social, and professional success. Whether as a child, or an adult, one needs to make sound decisions that impact their life positively. Hence, the need for individuals to incorporate or apply different techniques in their decision-making to help them become critical, creative, and better decision-makers.

An individual is considered a good decision-maker when their decisions give a better outcome, and these decisions are reached critically and creatively. If one intends to become a good decision-maker, there are some skills and values that one needs to practice to better their decision-making skills. Some of the values are open-mindedness which lets them reduce their biases, which may sway their decision-making on various issues and situations. Good decision-makers make the best decisions when they think rationally by looking at the alternatives and consequences presented by each decision and involving other parties when necessary to shape their final decisions. Hence, for an individual to be a critical, creative decision-maker, they need to incorporate techniques that better their decision-making and make it critical.These are various strategies that can incorporate to stimulate the thinking that favors the best decision-making. These strategies include; exploration, which allows one to have an around the perception of things, and with exploration, one’s curiosity is piqued; hence one can ask questions and investigate a workaround of various things. Such exploration helps an individual gather evidence and have many alternatives from which they can make their best conclusions. Hence they end up making the most creative and critical decisions. Exploration also calls for sharing thoughts, experiences, and ideas when making decisions around complex issues (Neubauer et al., 2019). The other techniques are mind mapping, which helps solve problems and unlocks your creativity, helping you develop more creative decisions (Bates, 2019). Hence, it is a good strategy to help come up with more critical and creative ideas.

The other strategy is roleplaying, which allows you to develop ideas based on possible interactions and circumstances. This strategy is critical in a company that manufactures products and comes up with ideas for a product and its marketing to appeal to a larger customer base (Cheng et al., 2020). Thus, top leaders and other relevant stakeholders should incorporate roleplaying to help make the best decisions. There is also the re-conceptualizing problems strategy, which is critical in one's decision-making process. Such a technique allows you to take a step back and examine a situation or problem from another angle, have a different mindset, and consider other alternatives and perceptions (Mullins et al., 2022). Brainstorming is another strategy an individual or group can partake in to become better, creative, and critical decision-makers. This strategy allows people to open up and discuss and share their thoughts with others freely, and through that, they come up with better decisions (Grabowski et al., 2022). These strategies make up most of the techniques that individuals, groups, and leaders apply to come up with the most critical, creative, and better decisions on various issues in their day-to-day lives.

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