Making Right Choice

What does the F in Finds stand for?

• Figure out the problem

• Figure out the solution

• Find the answer

• Find the solution

While making a decision about what to do next summer, you identified possible solutions and also identified the pros and cons of each. Last year, you went with your feelings and decided to wait and see what came up, and it turned out to be a bad decision.

If you want to compare the pros and cons to really make a good decision, which technique should you use to help you decide?

• routinization

• intuition

• idleness

• criteria filter

Explain the FINDS Decision-Making Model

• Fast; Independent; Natural; Determined; Study the decision.

• Figure out the problem; Investigate; Name a leader; Decide on a solution; Study the results.

• Figure out the problem; Identify solutions; Name pros and cons of each choice; Decide which is the best solution and then act on it; Scrutinize the decision.

• Find a project; Identify the benefits; Name the disadvantages; Decide if it's a worthy project; Scrutinize the decision-making process.

Stacy is using the FINDS decision process to decide on what to do this summer. She identified three possible choices: Get a job; Volunteer at summer camp; Go to summer school.

What should she do next?

• Decide which is the best choice and then act on it.

• .Scrutinize her decision.

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• Name the pros and cons of each.

• Start setting short-term goals.

A standard, rule, or test on which a judgement or decision can be based

• Criteria filter

• idleness

• intuition

• routinization

a process or decision that you have to used over and over in the past that helps you now with an established decision-making pattern

• criteria filter

• idleness

• intuition

• routinization

Instinctive knowledge or perception without conscious reasoning; keen insight

• criteria filter

• idleness

• intuition

• routinization

passing time without working or while avoiding work

• criteria filter

• idleness

• intuition

• routinization

The I in Finds stand for

• Identify the problem

• identify the pros and cons

• Identify the possible answer

• Identify the solution

What does the S stands for in FINDS

• Scrutinize the problems

• Scrutinize the decision

• Scrutinize the details

• Scrutinize the answer