Decision Making

Personal and Professional Life

 Why Me?
• You are at a very important stage of your life
• Your life and people around you get affected
by YOUR decisions
• They hold YOU responsible for any change
• They FOLLOW you/REBEL against you
• YOU could be a MODEL or a FAILURE
 Objectives
• To select the most important options – GRID
analysis
• Weighing the pros and cons of a decision –
PMI
• Analyzing the pressures ‘for’ and ‘against’
change – Forced Field Analysis
 GRID Analysis
• List all your options as rows
• List all factors to be considered as columns
• Give scores based on importance
• Total up all options + factors combinations
• DECIDE using GRID – Your favorite actor!
 PMI – Plus/Minus/Interesting
• Weighing the Pros and Cons of a decision
• Before you move straight to action on this
course of action, it is important to check that
it is going to improve the situation
• It may be best to do nothing!
• DECIDE using PMI – decision to move to
Mumbai
 Force Field Analysis

• Technique for looking at all forces “for” and

“against” a decision
• Specialized method for weighing pros and cons
• Where you “decided” on a plan, FFA helps you
identify changes to improve it
DECIDE using FFA – whether to start A.C Bus
service from Badnera station to college – you
are the management…not students!
QUESTIONS
Teaching Style – Personality – Approachability – Professionalism –
Submission Report Checking

ACTIVITY! DECIDE YOUR FAVORITE

LECTURER
 Meeting Objectives

• To select the most important options –

GRID analysis
• Weighing the pros and cons of a decision –
PMI
• Analyzing the pressures ‘for’ and ‘against’
change – Forced Field Analysis
Consider changes when you make decisions
Analyze if its worth making that change
Always be prepared for resistance to change
Good decision making is good leadership

THANKS FOR YOUR TIME!