Decisions, decisions!!!

They can be so hard!

Do we turn left or right? Do we spend $100 on books for the library, or do we buy a new robot? Budget cuts are coming for us all – when they hit the library will we have to furlough staff, or stop buying material??

We have been reading material lately about automating decisions, and that sounds like a great idea when it is possible for you. Check out some of these resources for ideas on trying that. (I’ve done it, and it really does work for me!)

• How To Beat Decision Fatigue With Better Brain Habits

• How To Cope With Decision Fatigue

• Decision fatigue, ego depletion: How to make better decisions

• This Entrepreneur Shares Her Surprising Secret to Fighting Decision Fatigue

We have an entire podcast filled with ideas on making good decisions – for yourself and for your library! You can find it here!

Have you met bad managers? Well, of course you have – everyone has. There may be many reasons they are not good at their jobs; but it is very easy to think picture bad managers who are dithering around decisions, constantly asking for more information or other people’s opinions. Then when a decision is made, it is too often a bad one, or is so often second-guessed that it becomes meaningless.

Instead of falling victim to this terrible fate, we will walk through some processes for making decisions in an effective way. No one single procedure will be right for every situation, but some basics will always be useful to you.

We walk you through Formal Decision Making, so you get a feel for the whole process. We look at using a flowchart (fun! visual!). And we browse through a few quick strategies you use when you don’t have the time or energy to do something complex.

Good decision making is critical. Everyone will make some bad decisions – it happens. But having a process for making decisions helps to ensure you are more likely to make good ones.

Think about your own process, and let’s make some good decisions today!