In this episode, I review the process and tools that you can use to make effective decisions. I provide examples of using a decision making process when you’re considering transitioning from clinical medicine at the bedside to a non-clinical role.

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“Learning how others have made good decisions and bad decisions and applying those lessons to our own decision making process can save us from many poor decisions.”

Show Highlights:

• Learn about the decision making process including Peter Drucker’s detailed six sequential steps necessary to make great decisions.
• Why the elements of Drucker’s process are relevant to career decisions and may be helpful to you.
• Discover how to ask the right questions and test to see if the decision and action plan are effective.
• An overview of the Rational Decision Making Model and its similarities to Drucker’s process.
• How to use the Intuitive Model as a process dictated by inner knowledge or intuition to determine what the right option is for you.
• Discover how the Recognition Primed Model is a combination of both rational and intuitive decision making.
• How the Creative Model differs from the others and its benefit.
• How to use the decision matrix tool when you are reaching a complex or a difficult decision or addressing an opportunity.

About me:

I’m an experienced physician executive with over 30 years of clinical and administrative experience in various healthcare settings. I’m passionate about coaching and mentoring physicians interested in transitioning to full time or part time non-clinical roles either within the healthcare industry or external to healthcare. I have served as a COO for an emergency medicine management company, CMO for several hospitals, Vice-president of ambulatory quality for a large multispecialty medical group, Vice-president of system quality and safety for a multi-hospital system, along with numerous medical staff positions and other administrative roles.

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Additional Resources:

Decision making 101

Decision Matrix Analysis

How to use the Pugh Matrix

Management and Decision Making - Explained

Pugh Matrix

Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions by John S. Hammond

The Decision Education Podcast

The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking by Peter F. Drucker

Top 10 ways to make better decisions

A Guide to Effective Decision Making

Free 30 Minute Coaching Introductory Session

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