Learn from your boss's approach
How does your boss get to a decision? What can you learn from them?
Is your boss an instinctive decision maker? Do they like to do their homework first? Do they always sleep on a big decision?
- Strike up a conversation with your boss about decision making. Do they have any tips that have worked for them?
- What’s the most difficult decision they’ve had to make? How did they decide?
- Are there any decision making tactics that they’ve tried and hated? What went wrong?
Besides helping you make decisions today, knowing how your boss approaches things will help you in future. When you need them to make a decision, you can come prepared.
When to take this action
This action is from 'Bias for action' and should be used when you're struggling to make a decision, when you want to improve how you make decision, when you need your boss to make a decision
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