An excellent way to build a better solution is to include others in the decision-making process. Ask them for their advice. By doing this, you’ll foster their feelings of contribution, and increase the likelihood that the decision will be accepted by others when it’s made.
Involve everyone in the creation of the plan you’re trying to achieve, and allow them to discover how they can accomplish it for themselves, too.
Today’s TQ Challenge: Search Beyond Acceptable — Find the BEST Alternatives.
- Choose to be WELL-INFORMED! What decisions need to be made today? Who can you get to participate in them?
- Choose to be OPEN-MINDED! How often do you include others in your decision-making process?
- Choose to be INSIGHTFUL! Do you share in making your decisions with the people who’ll be affected by them?
Your first idea may not always be the best idea. Nonetheless, it’s the only one you can act on if you fail to come up with better alternatives. You minimize mistakes and create better results by carefully considering your options in advance. Explore additional possibilities before you reach a conclusion. Consider other perspectives: consult expert opinions; test your options; do a little research. Life’s too short and money’s too valuable to do otherwise. So, think it through, ask for help and learn to make better decisions by finding better options.
“The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.”
~ W. Alton Jones
, and find out how to improve this aspect of your Make Plans Color.
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