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- Herausgeber: 50Minutes.com
- Kategorie: Fachliteratur
- Serie: Coaching
- Sprache: Englisch
Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about making professional decisions with this practical guide.
We are all faced with difficult professional decisions at some point, and how we deal with them can have a major impact on our careers. When the stakes are so high, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed and become paralysed by indecision, but this does not have to hold you back: there are many ways of identifying your priorities and using them to make choices with complete peace of mind.
In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Understand the reasons for your indecision and take steps to overcome it
• Identify the values that are important and meaningful to you and use them to guide your choices
• Develop your intuitive intelligence to make decisions quickly and with confidence
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Successful decision-making
Problem: how can I learn to make and be comfortable with tough decisions?Uses: making rational professional choices will give you a sense of balance and allow you to move towards the goals you have set yourself with complete peace of mind.Professional context: career management, professional development.FAQs:What is my brain’s process for making a decision?What are the consequences of failing to make a choice?Should I limit my choices?Is it helpful to talk about good or bad choices?How will greater self-awareness allow me to make choices that I am happy with?Should I seek guidance when making an important professional decision?We all have to make professional decisions at some point: choosing a career, changing job, setting up a business, changing our work arrangements, and so on. Whether they are big or small, and whether they were our idea or were imposed by someone else, these choices often make us uncomfortable or even stressed if we are struggling to decide.
The French writer André Gide (1869-1951) claimed that choosing inevitably means rejecting other options which could have turned out to be better, thus highlighting how difficult it can be to make a decision. As well as abandoning other options, making a decision means facing up to the unknown and taking a risk (since the outcome is not guaranteed), and consequently setting off in a particular direction. It is a necessary gamble on the future.
Learning to make decisions is therefore essential: they allow us to change a situation we are not happy with, preserve what we already have or make progress towards our goals, without depending on other people.
However, it can be difficult to overcome indecision, feel certain about our choices and be completely comfortable with the path we have taken. Choosing what will make us happy is not as easy as it may seem. In just 50 minutes, you will discover all the practical advice you need to make fulfilling personal choices and stick to them.
Making the right choices: the basics
Why is it so difficult to make a decision?
The limits of a rational approach
Research in cognitive science has shown that we make all our decisions in two phases. Firstly, we gather information and examine the options available, which enables us to eliminate some of them. We then compare the remaining options to evaluate the level of commitment, the actions necessary and the long-term consequences of each of them.
The more important a decision seems to us, the more we try to approach it rationally. This is illustrated by the well-known method of drawing up two columns to record the pros and cons of each option. This allows us to clarify the situation by sorting through the advantages and disadvantages and evaluating the consequences for us and our environment. However, this is often not enough for us to decide. Furthermore, overthinking things can stop us from making a choice, leaving us feeling anxious and guilty.
THINK, BUT DO NOT OVERTHINK
Researchers in neuroscience have discovered that the more information we accumulate about a subject, the more we risk drifting away from the crux of the matter. Indeed, our prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for reasoning, can only deal with a certain amount of information at once. Too much information can therefore stop us from thinking clearly and lead us away from what really matters.
