Decisoin Making Model

Decision-Making Model Paper

University of Phoenix

Decision-Making Model Paper

A very straight forward Decision-Making Model was found online at the Berkely Career Center website (2006). The model deals with pros and cons as well as uncertain aspects that require more research. The research portion of the model includes sharing one's possible decisions with another person to get his or her outside view in order to help see more positive and negative possibilities of those decisions.

The model contains seven steps in which one lays out the pros and cons of his/her decision. Step one is to describe the situation by writing out the decision as if it were already made on the top of a sheet of paper. (I thought it necessary to also write out the overall goal of the process). Step two seeks to understand assets and risks by dividing the paper into two columns and labeling them, Pros, and Cons then filling in all the possible outcomes. So, in the pros column one should write out all the positive outcomes. Step three is to write out all possible negative outcomes in the cons column, and step four and five deal with the uncertain outcomes of your decision. When filling out the columns it is important to keep the end goal in mind.

The fourth step of the model suggests that, on a separate sheet of paper, one should write all possibilities that remain neither a pro nor a con and label that paper Uncertain. Step five helps to clarify the uncertainties of these possibilities. Step five instructs that one investigate those uncertain possibilities and consider, in detail, the effects that each could have on the decision. Several