Making the Right Decision

Passing time without working or while avoiding work is known as _____?

• intuition

• idleness

• criteria filter

• routinization

VOCAB: A process or decision that you have used over and over in the past that helps you now with an established decision-making pattern.

• Idleness

• Intuition

• Routinization

• Criteria Filter

VOCAB: A standard, rule, or

test on which a judgment or decision can be based.

• Idleness

• Intuition

• Routinization

• Criteria Filter

VOCAB: Instinctive knowledge or perception without conscious reasoning; keen insight.

• Idleness

• Intuition

• Routinization

• Criteria Filter

VOCAB: Passing time without

working or while avoiding work.

• Idleness

• Intuition

• Routinization

• Criteria Filter

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

• Critieria Filter

Explain the F-I-N-D-S 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 the pros and cons of each choice; Decide which is the best solution and the 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 F-I-N-D-S 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.

• Name the pros and cons of each.

• Start setting short-term goals.

A friend that has known you for long time asked you what you are going to do next summer. You took out a pencil and a piece of paper and started using the F-I-N-D-S process. Then your friend said, “Why do you always do that?” Which of the following reasons would you not say?

• The more you use it the more it becomes routine.

• It’s a logical way to make life decisions.

• It can be used for major and minor decisions.

• It helps to define goals.