What is decision making?
Decision making is the process of framing a choice, generating alternatives, evaluating evidence and uncertainty, committing, and learning from results.
Assess how well you frame choices, use evidence, handle uncertainty, and learn from outcomes without confusing confidence with accuracy.
Answer as you are today
Choose the answer that best describes your recent behaviour at work. No email required.
What does decision making mean?
Decision making is the process of framing a choice, generating alternatives, evaluating evidence and uncertainty, committing, and learning from results.
Why it matters at work
Intuition can be skilled in predictable environments with repeated feedback and unreliable elsewhere. Good decision practice matches the method to the environment and makes assumptions visible before confidence hardens around them.
What this assessment measures
Frame & alternatives
Defining the actual choice, objectives, constraints, and meaningfully different options.
Evidence & uncertainty
Testing assumptions, using relevant base rates, and expressing what is unknown.
Commitment & learning
Assigning ownership, defining review triggers, and evaluating process separately from luck.
How to interpret your score
Your overall result is normalised to a 0–100 scale. Use it to choose a practice area, not to compare your worth with somebody else.
Build your decision making foundation
Your answers identify situations where a small, observable routine could make this capability more dependable.
A developing decision making pattern
You show this capability in some conditions. Focus on the dimension that becomes least reliable under pressure.
A strong decision making pattern
Your answers suggest a reliable pattern. Keep testing it against difficult situations and evidence from other people.
Designed for reflection, not diagnosis
The ten behaviour-based statements cover 3 practical dimensions. Responses run from “Never” to “Almost always”; negatively worded items are reverse-scored. Overall and dimension results are converted to a 0–100 scale. The assessment is educational and has not been psychometrically validated.
Read the full assessment methodology and editorial standards.
Research that informed this page
Daniel Kahneman and Gary Klein (2009), “Conditions for Intuitive Expertise: A Failure to Disagree”, American Psychologist.