Learn Your Decision Making Style With This Quiz
To make better decisions, you first need to understand how you make decisions. This tool can help you figure it out.
According to Jeff Schinabarger, author of Yes or No: How Everyday Decisions Affect Your Life Forever, there are seven different decision-making styles. As he explains on his website:
Understanding how you make decisions is the starting point for making better decisions in the future. Your unique decision-making style speaks volumes about your strengths as well as your weakest points.
Entrepreneur magazine describes each of these styles, and some of them include:
List approach : You only make decisions when you methodically consider the pros and cons. Shinabarger says:
Each solution will start with a piece of paper and a line drawn from top to bottom to create a list of pros and cons. They can see things from all angles and will not choose until they have considered all the options.
Data Driven: Research is the key to making decisions, and you need hard numbers.
The more information they gather, the better. Numbers, research, and reasoning determine what they do and how they decide.
Internal reaction: You make decisions based on your feelings and you are willing to take risks.
The decisions of these people are very emotional and instinctively known in a matter of moments. They are guided by this moment, and they are often difficult to predict.
Shinabarger has created a website and tool to help you find your own decision-making style based on a series of about fifty questions. It’s simple enough, and by accepting it, you will get a quick summary of your style. Keep in mind that this is more or less a basic online quiz based on his own ideas, so this is not a very scientific assessment of personality. However, it does ring true and can provide some insight into how you make decisions.
Check it out below, head over to the Shinabarger website for more details, and check out Entrepreneur’s post for a good summary of each of the seven styles.
What is your decision-making style? | Yes or no through an entrepreneur