Decision-Making-Model:
Defining the situation in the decision making process is probably the most significant step. It is vital to have a good understanding and be very clear about the situation and what you want to achieve. Any misinformation about the situation is likely to be amplified in the later stages in decision making. Being cleat about what you want the decision to achieve will also have knock off effects on the later stages of the decision making. It is easy to know what is not wanted, but such framing of the outcome in a negative way does not set a direction to move towards, only what to move away from.
Instead, one should state it in a way that they want the decision to achieve. Sometimes in the decision process, you will have a number of alternatives to choose from. These alternatives and the choices that you make will depend on factors such as experience, knowledge, skills and the number of people involved in the alternatives and what one may consider important.
The basic steps in the decision making process is: framing, deciding, communicating, implementing and evaluating. Framing has to do with clarifying the purpose and the boundaries of the decision and gathering the information. One also needs to define when the decision needs to be made and communicate to the affected parties who are making the decision and the rationale for it. in the deciding stage, the decision needs to be defined on how the decision will be made, use appropriate tools that support data gathering, make decisions through the integration of ideas and data and identify who will implement the decisions. In the Communicating stage, summarize the rationale for the decision ans communicate the decision, why it was made and the rationale for it. in the implementing stage, you need to define the steps in implementing the decision including the timeline for completion,