Are Your Meeting Icebreaker Questions Falling Flat? Here’s Why
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of meeting icebreaker question lists out there. After just one Google search, you’ll have options upon options...
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Emily May
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Feb 23, 2021 5:30:00 AM
Sound judgment and decision-making are skills reserved for leaders - false.
Sound judgment and decision-making are purely logical activities - false.
The ability to pass sound judgments and make good decisions is a universal skill that will benefit you regardless of your role, department, or industry. Whether you are an emergency room doctor or a social media intern, your ability to collect information, determine its relevance, and decide on the course of action impacts many others, not just yourself. Therefore, honing your skills in this area is critical to your success.
Sound judgment and decision-making can be defined as one's ability to objectively assess situations or circumstances using all the relevant information and apply past experience in order to come to a conclusion or make a decision.
Whether we are aware of it or not, many factors can either compromise or elevate our ability to make a judgment or decision. These things include:
While there are clearly external and internal factors at play in any situation, whether it be an emergency or every day, there are actions you can take at the moment to ensure the judgments and decisions you make are sound.
In a study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on judgment and decision-making under stress, researchers noted that:
“There is an assumption that the best decisions are rational-based on logic and factual information. Researchers have tended to look at reason and emotion separately. A value has been placed on decisions made with reason: "it is careless but common to suggest that when we make bad decisions, they are based on emotion, but when we arrive at good decisions, they are based solely on reason" (Lazarus and Lazarus, 1994). Hammond posited that different situations demand different forms of cognitive activity, some calling for increased analytical cognition, and others calling for increased reliance on intuition.”
This highlights that you will not always be able to pass a judgment or make a decision without emotion, experience, preference, or environment impacting your abilities, for worse or for better. Though what you can do is take actions such as communicating, practicing mindfulness, and developing your skills with training programs, to ensure that when you are faced with a decision to make, you can do so with the greatest possible confidence.
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