Within the first 45s of the video (link to the video
provided below), you are given 6 words that summarize your decision making
style. For me, these words were
cautious, logical, self-motivated, rational, active, and assertive. I would also like to clarify that I don’t
think these words apply to me in every situation as some situations require
different aspects of decision making styles, but on any given decision, I’d
agree with how I was labeled. If given
the option, I am definitely a more cautious than risk taking. I tend to take more risks in my personal life
but I am definitely cautious at work, mainly because people’s lives and
billions of dollars’ worth of government property is in my hands on the
job. I will take a more logical approach
most of the time if time is permitting.
In general I like to make my own decisions hence I am self-motivated. I am a very rational thinker so it would only
be suitable that I am rational with my decision making. Finally, I am active in pursuing a decision
and assertive – I want to be the guy making them.
The opposite of the words that described me aren’t
necessarily words that I wouldn’t use under the right circumstance. For example, there will be situations where
timing of the decision is critical. As a
result, I might have to make a decision based on my gut feeling due to lack of
information. In this situation, I am ok
with making a decision using my intuition only and will gladly kick logic to
the curb as needed. Looking at the other
5 words, I think the same can be said for them also for at least 2 out of the 5. As I mentioned already, I am much more of a
risk taker in my personal life than at work.
I am absolutely open to getting other people’s inputs into the problem
before making a decision so I have no problem with receiving influence from
other people. That leaves rational,
active, and assertive. The opposite of
these words (respectively) are emotional/feeling, passive, and quiet. These 3 words are probably words I would not
use to describe me. I use rational
thinking most of the time, so much so that my wife sometimes says she wishes I
would not think so coldly at times but separately acknowledges that it can be
pretty handy at times. I’m not a very
passive or quiet person when it comes to leadership. I’ll give someone the opportunity to go about
it their way, but if things start to head south, I’ll have no problem stepping
in and resuming my active assertive role.
The final part of this blog is supposed to discuss the
benefits of using an opposite or combined approach. I think one can see that I already do
so. As I described above, I cater my
decision making style based upon the situation that I am in. If it warrants an assertive time critical
response, I’ll go with an intuition based decision vice the logical one I would
have made had I had the time. I think
this has to be the approach that everyone takes when it comes to decision
making. Different situations require
different skill sets in order to successfully overcome them. If you do not allow your decision making
skill to adapt to meet the needs of the individual problem, you might find
yourself not making the best of decisions.
Conversely, if you pick and choose what style you want to use based on
the circumstance, I think in general you are going to be much happier with both
the process and the final decision that was made.
http://digital.films.com.ezproxy.libproxy.db.erau.edu/play/7A2UTV#
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