From the course: Building High-Performance Teams
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Making decisions
- For your high performing team to have impact, you need to make decisions because that's why you're the leader. And there's a very specific process you can follow in terms of decision-making. You need to prepare to make the decision, then you actually make the decision. Notice it's the second step in the process. There are three other critical elements. You have to communicate the decision to other people, let them know what you decided and why. You need to execute against that decision and you as the leader need to monitor for execution and then last, you have to measure and adjust accordingly. Now, there are four different styles of decision-making that you can use. The first is autocratic. Autocratic is when one individual makes the call without input from anyone else and that call is made quickly and decisively. The second style of decision-making is participatory. Participatory decision-making is where there's an individual or a small group responsible for making the decision…
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