Building great decision making skills in teams is brilliant for you personally as a leader or manager. Helping team members with how to build better decision making skills will free up your time to focus on the tougher more challenging decisions. More time on these usually means better results and more interesting work. 

I share 4 approaches to build great decision making skills in teams.

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One of the most important ways to build great decision making skills quickly in a team is to encourage team members to take decisions. Just telling team members or verbally giving permission is rarely enough. Alignment of permission, actions, reactions, safety and skills is required from the manager. 

How to build great decision making skills starts with making team members feel safe. i.e. no repercussions for making poor decisions through inexperience. If team members don’t feel safe, they simply won’t make decisions. They will pass making decisions onto you. Safety is the first of the steps to build great decision making skills.

The next step of how to work on decision making skills in teams is to give them the right decisions to make. No all decisions are the same and breaking down all the different decisions being faced by the whole team and intelligently allocating them is vital to building skills and confidence. 

How to work on decision making skills with team members depends on their current decision making skills and confidence. The impact of decisions is big psychological factor to consider. The bigger the impact, the harder the decision to make for most people. What help and support available is a big factor. Are the decisions going to be reviewed by more experienced colleagues before being actioned is another big factor. 

Another way to build great decision making skills in any team is to plan specific activities for individuals and groups to work together on different decisions. Deciding together is often a lot less daunting than deciding alone.

Like all skills, how to improve your decision making skills is through practice. How are you going to get your team members practicing the right level of decision making skills for them. I share my best tips and practices for doing just this. Developing team members is a vital leadership skill for manager to be very successful. 

If you have any questions on “4 Approaches to Build Great Decision Making Skills Quickly in Teams”, please email me at [email protected] and I will get back to you. 

Jess Coles

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