Leaders and their teams often pride themselves on their ability to deal with an onslaught of decisions. But the reality is they often end up making rapid-fire calls on issues big and small and wasting their time. They and their organizations would be better served by an approach that treats decisions as a deliberately structured workstream.
A 4-Step Process to Help Senior Teams Prioritize Decisions
Manage the onslaught.
March 27, 2017
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Summary.
Leaders and their teams often pride themselves on their ability to deal with an onslaught of decisions. But the reality is they often end up making rapid-fire calls on issues big and small and wasting their time. Their organizations would be better served by an approach that treats decisions as a deliberately structured workstream. An exercise can help a senior team create a repeatable process for prioritizing decisions and determine the right methodology for each. It consists of four steps: 1) compile a list of the decisions likely to arise in coming months; 2) understand their characteristics; 3) sort the decisions into three categories; 4) and understand when the decisions should be made.
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