016: Decision making to up-level your leadership

Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 4 a.m.

Do you ever feel like you are drowning in decisions? 

Demanded to choose between things minute to minute, hour to hour?

By the end of the working day are you so done from decision making that you can barely handle choosing what to do about dinner?

The job of a leader is, above all, making and communicating decisions. Providing clarity on focus, direction, and exchanging information. Reviewing data, and making informed decisions based on that data. Evaluating alternatives and prepping plans for critical analysis and escalation. 

Decision making just intensifies as we progress in our careers. 

But the one thing we don’t realise needs to change is how we make decisions. Moving from the action-based decision making in our first management roles to more strategic decision making as an executive. Realizing that that decision-making styles and actions that got you to where you are now, won’t just fail to get you further, but could be damaging your reputation right now if you aren’t adapting to the needs of the decision-making required of you in your current role. 

So what can you do? In today’s episode of the Leading Women in Tech podcast I’m diving into how do you get out from under the weight of these decisions, avoid the ‘you aren’t communicating well’ spoken or unspoken criticism that is often a symptom of decision burnout, and learn how to level up your decision making alongside your other leadership skills. 

Ready? Let’s go to the show!

 

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