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Evaluating Decisions

Warning! What you’re about to read can make you a highly successful decision maker. But it takes professional courage and dedication to learning.

After your decisions have been implemented, you’ll need to evaluate them. Were they good decisions, bad decisions, or somewhere in between? Did you get the result you planned on? Or did results fall short of the goal?

Facing the truth about our decisions takes courage, and that kind of bravery is not as prevalent in organizations as you might think. Looking our decisions square in the eye after the fact is scary, because we don’t want to see any shortcomings or failures.

But by evaluating the outcome of our decisions, we learn how to be better the next time around. We learn from success what worked, and from failure what didn’t. We also learn from those results what falls into the range of mediocrity.

If we fail in this critical step of decision-making, we may find ourselves left out of opportunity all together, down the road.