Leadership Competency 7: Making Decisions

Being an effective leader involves not only making decisions, but making the right decisions. When leading, people look to you to when confronted with a choice on which way to go. This is your vision, after all, and you need to make the choices in order to bring the vision to reality.

The decisions a leader makes can be small in scope (“What project will this team work on?”), or large (“Who do we hire as our new CFO?”). At times, you will have to make decisions that will be unpopular with those you are leading. Part of your job will be to build consensus and relate the specific decision you make to the goals and outcomes you wish to achieve.

However, the choices and decisions you make must not appear to be arbitrary. You cannot flip a coin or choose by “rock, paper, scissors.” Instead, you will have to weigh the risks and benefits of your choices. Leadership isn’t about making quick decisions - sometimes you will have much time for the decision and sometimes you will have to do them on the fly. Leadership is about making wise decisions and being able to express to others your reasons for making these decisions in ways that relate to the ultimate goals you are trying to achieve.

Objectives:

During this course you will:

• Review Birkman assessment results
• Identify areas for improvement
• Engage in active discussion
• Practice examples in role plays and activities
• Create specific action items to put into practice immediately

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

• Keep meetings and discussions on track
• Express ideas clearly and concisely
• Relate decisions to strategic goals and outcomes
• Deal with risk and ambiguity
• Take calculated risks
• Build consensus

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