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In psychology, decision-making is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several alternative possibilities. Every decision-making process produces a final choice that may or may not prompt action. The thought process of selecting a logical choice from the available options. When trying to make a good decision, a person must weight the positives and negatives of each option, and consider all the alternatives. For effective decision making, a person must be able to forecast the outcome of each option as well, and based on all these items, determine which option is the best for that particular situation. People often find it hard to make decisions - inevitably we all have to make decisions all the time, some are more important than others.   Some people put off making decisions by endlessly searching for more information or getting other people to offer their recommendations.  Others resort to decis...

The Top 10 Reasons Your Goals Fail It is that time of year again, where we set goals and make New Years Resolutions. Like many of you, I’ve made resolutions and goals only to have them fail. Some big and some little, but in the end they all ended up on the cutting room floor. Yes, even a leadership coach can fail at achieving goals. I’m human and perfectly normal. So, I decided to go back through the archives and do some research to see what tripped me up from success. What were the common themes and elements which led to my failure? While this list is not comprehensive, it represents some of the big ideas and reasons why I failed and I bet many of these will resonate with you. Without further ado… The Top 10 Reasons Why Your Goals Fail:   You don’t break bad habits.  The name of the game is breaking bad habits and creating the good habits needed to accomplish your goals. Your life is a series of habits. If you keep doing t...

What motivates behavior? According to humanist psychologist Abraham Maslow, our actions are motivated in order achieve certain needs. Maslow first introduced his concept of a hierarchy of needs in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" and his subsequent book Motivation and Personality. This hierarchy suggests that people are motivated to fulfill basic needs before moving on to other, more advanced needs. While some of the existing schools of thought at the time (such as psychoanalysis and behaviorism) tended to focus on problematic behaviors, Maslow was much more interested in learning more about what makes people happy and the things that they do to achieve that aim. As a humanist, Maslow believed that people have an inborn desire to be self-actualized, to be all they can be. In order to achieve this ultimate goals, however, a number of more basic needs must be met first such as the need for food, safety, love, and self-esteem. ...

A  leadership style  is a  leader's style  of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people. There are many different  leadership styles  that can be exhibited by  leaders  in the political, business or other fields. WHAT IS LEADERSHIP STYLE? WHY PAY ATTENTION TO LEADERSHIP STYLE? WHAT ARE SOME CONCEPTIONS AND METHODS OF LEADERSHIP? WHAT ARE SOME WAYS OF LOOKING AT LEADERSHIP STYLE AND WHAT ARE THEIR EFFECTS ON AN ORGANIZATION? HOW DO YOU DETERMINE WHAT IS AN APPROPRIATE STYLE? HOW DO YOU CHOOSE AND DEVELOP A LEADERSHIP STYLE? A couple of true stories: The director of a community coalition understood her role clearly: to bring people and organizations together to work on common issues; to facilitate the work of the groups that formed; and to support those who took on responsibility for the work. Her enthusiasm and hard work pulled coalition members o...