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Making Difficult Decisions


Making Difficult Decisions

How to be decisive and get the business done
1. Aufl.

von: Peter J. A. Shaw

13,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 04.02.2010
ISBN/EAN: 9781907293863
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 224

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You are faced with so many difficult decisions. Often your decision making seems random. It can be swayed by different situations and emotions. You need to be more rigorous in the way you make decisions and yet you have very little time to do so. Experience from others who have made tough decisions and a framework to help you do so would be invaluable.<br /> <br /> <br /> The courage to make decisions is sometimes a bit elusive. It is difficult to find the calmness to be able to make and live with those decisions. There is so much that can be learned from the experience of others. After working through this book you will have the courage of your convictions and the ability to make difficult decisions count.<br /> <br /> <br /> The book sets out a framework for making difficult decisions that has been tried and tested. It has been used successfully in one-to-one coaching with senior leaders in both the public, private and voluntary sectors. The framework is built on the following strands: Clarity; Conviction; Courage; and Communication.
Acknowledgements. <p>Foreword by Nick Macpherson.</p> <p>Introduction.</p> <p><b>Part 1: The 4Cs of Making Difficult Decisions.</b></p> <p>1. Balancing clarity and conviction.</p> <p>2. Clarity.</p> <p>3. Conviction.</p> <p>4. Courage.</p> <p>5. Communication.</p> <p><b>Part 2: Taking Forward Making Difficult Decisions.</b></p> <p>6. Applying the learning from good decision makers.</p> <p>7. Embedding the ability to make difficult decisions.</p> <p>8. Enabling others to make difficult decisions.</p> <p>9. Key questions when making difficult decisions.</p> <p><b>Part 3: Making Difficult Decisions in Particular Circumstances.</b></p> <p>10. Making difficult decisions as the boss.</p> <p>11. Making difficult decisions in relating to your boss.</p> <p>12. Making difficult decisions in relating to your peers.</p> <p>13. Dealing with your hopes and fears.</p> <p>14. Addressing values and priorities.</p> <p>15. Next Steps.</p> <p>Selected bibliography.</p> <p>Index.</p>
<i>"Author Shaw approaches his subject in a methodical fashion...a well laid-out book...the advise, including warnings on potential pitfalls, is good."</i> (Personnel Today, September 16, 2008) <p><i>"Shaw has done something rarely attempted before...he covers a huge range of decision makers and how they tackle decisions"</i> ( Engineering & Technology, October 11th, 2008)</p>
<b>Peter Shaw</b> is a founding Partner of the leading coaching firm praesta Partners and is an experienced business coach working with senior leaders in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Peter's clients enjoy frank, challenging conversations leading to fresh thinking and new insights. He is often coaching at the interface of the public and private sectors, and working with Chief Executives and Board members taking on new roles and leading major organisational change. Peter is frequently working with individuals who are making difficult decisions enabling them to look at decisions from a range of different perspectives.<br /> Prior to becoming a coach Peter held three Director general posts and worked in five different Government Departments, treasury, Education, Employment, Environment and Transport. he has written a sequence of influential leadership books including, <i>The 4 Vs of Leadership: Vision, Values, Value-added and Vitality, Finding your Future: The Second Time Around and Conversations Matters: How to Engage Effectively With One Another.<br /> </i>He co-authored with Robin Linnecar, <i>Business Coaching: Achieving Practical Results Through effective Engagement</i> and has written a range of influential articles. Peter was formerly a Visiting Professor at Durham University. he regularly leads workshops on leadership issues based around the themes of his books.
What makes the difference between times when a decision is relatively straightforward and others where it is difficult? Is there some way we can make a step change in our capability to make difficult decisions well? <p>The heart of good decision making is balancing <b>clarity</b> and <b>conviction</b>: it is the interplay between analysis and beliefs, logical thinking and the 'gut' reaction. <b>Courage</b> and <b>communication</b> are essential elements in being decisive, taking forward difficult decisions effectively and getting the business done.</p> <p><i>Making Difficult Decision</i>s will enable you to:</p> <ul> <li> <div>clarify your thinking about the best way of making difficult decisions;</div> </li> <li> <div>view the decision making of others sin a more aware and accurate way;</div> </li> <li> <div>understand your own preference sand foibles in making difficult decisions; and</div> </li> <li> <div>be able to take difficult decisions with greater confidence and less personal anguish</div> </li> </ul> <p>If you are able to make just one choice better, then it will have been worth your investment of time to read <i>Making Difficult Decisions</i>. So be ready to enjoy and not be daunted by the decision you need to take.</p>

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