Writer & web editor: Jan P. Hagberg. / Technically responsible: Aleksander Kristian Weseth
Focus: Secrets 4 / Decision Risk
SGL-Find your decisions profile
Secret: 4
WHEN? – Asking
about the timing of
your risk assessments
The difficult choice
Everyone has felt it—that trembling restlessness that fills the body, whispering: Now you must choose. Now is the moment of decision!
Everything urges you forward. The choice must be made. There is no more time for questions, investigations, or doubts. Your answer must be: Yes, yes—or No, no. Some people thrive in such moments. Others dread them. Yet both must decide. The situation is new. The outcome is uncertain. The risk is high, and past experience offers no guidance. The next step cannot be quality assured. You must make a choice. You stand on the edge of a cognitive leap. Which raises the question:
WHEN do you take an existential jump at a depth of 70,000 fathoms? What will happen? – Why it happens? When it happens? – Read on!
Secret: 4 Your RISK profile!
LESSON 4,1 – Accept that anyone who affects own work operations is performing management. Ask yourself when you most experience yourself as a Warrior / Fast and fact-oriented, or as a Helper/ listening and consensus-oriented?
LESSON 4,2 – Become aware when your decision-making ability and your natural temperament work together. Find your position on the Decision Tree (cf. the illustration) – either as sensitive and consensus-oriented, or as rational and fact-oriented, or as perceptive and here-and-now-oriented, or as intuitive and risk-averse oriented.
LESSON 4,3 – When you must make a difficult and “dangerous” decision. – Who are you most in this situation: Warrior/Fighter, or Helper?
