Better Thinking for Better Results by Cathy Lasher

Author:Cathy Lasher
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784522025
Publisher: Panoma Press

Quantity over Quality

List opposite the options you have created in the Generate stage of the EDGE-it process:

Options for achieving the objectives determined in Deliberate include:

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The FOURTH stage is E – EXECUTE

This stage is the one in which you evaluate which option to take and Execute that action. Experiencing, Deliberating and Generating need to lead to Executing in order to capitalise on the time invested in the process.

You may have noticed that I have sneaked in an extra E there – evaluate. It is important for the creative process in Generate that the right-brain production of options is free from the left-brain process of evaluation. Only once the creative process has been completed is it appropriate to evaluate.

How do you typically choose what to do? There are many techniques to help with choosing an action. Here are just a few – which of these are you familiar with?

Cost benefit

Pros and cons

Let the universe decide

Let my internal critic decide

According to what feels good in the moment

The way my mother would want me to

Struggle and suffer

None of these is inherently superior to any other. It is absolutely impossible to know if you have made a good decision about anything – however it works out, it is not possible to know whether another decision would have been better. The only thing you can know is whether or not you made the decision well. That means that you need to evaluate your options carefully and choose a course of action that makes sense to you at the time of choosing.

For whatever decision you have in hand, explore your preferred way of making the decision. What kinds of things would you need to consider? Then try another one, perhaps the one that feels the most absurd. And another, perhaps the one that feels most connected to your preferred way. And another. And another. It can be useful to create a choice wheel, labelled with different ways of choosing, and consider the decision from each of the different ways. Ask yourself: What information would I need, and what would my choice be?

What information will I need?

What will my choice be?

Once you have an idea about how to choose from the options you Generated in the previous stage of EDGE-it, it is time to begin to develop a plan of action. You are ready now to evaluate and Execute your chosen option(s) One simple tool that can be used in planning, to help you choose options to convert to actions, is a 2x2 matrix of ease and impact.

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