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Successful Decision-Making: Simple steps to make the best career choices for you
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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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The Coaching series from the 50Minutes collection is aimed at all those who, at any stage in their careers, are looking to acquire personal or professional skills, adapt to new situations or simply re-evaluate their work-life balance. The concise and effective style of our guides enables you to gain an in-depth understanding of a broad range of concepts, combining theory, constructive examples and practical exercises to enhance your learning.
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
ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | COACHING
The Coaching series from the 50Minutes collection is aimed at all those who, at any stage in their careers, are looking to acquire personal or professional skills, adapt to new situations or simply re-evaluate their work-life balance. The concise and effective style of our guides enables you to gain an in-depth understanding of a broad range of concepts, combining theory, constructive examples and practical exercises to enhance your learning.
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Successful Decision-Making - 50minutes
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
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