Four Decision Types Common at Meetings

Meetings provides great opportunities for gathering ideas and make headway towards a future goal. Often this involves decision making. Understanding what type of decisions need to be made helps you plan your meeting better.

Strategy Decisions

These are decisions made about the path for the future of a company, product, event, etc. These decisions are important because they often involve long term plans.

Problem Solving Decisions

In order to change a current situation or pattern of performance, it is often necessary to call together meetings to think of ways to solve them. This is the idea behind problem solving. Whether it’s an immediate problem or a longer range problem, understanding that the goal of a meeting is to solve the problem is important. The meeting will not be complete until a solution has been found.

Operational Decisions

Used for staffing, purchases or method decisions, operational decisions are often the most common reason for meetings. They include both large and small decisions about how to go forward. Once you include these category into your general schema of decision making, it is clear how important of an aspect it is in any meeting.

Evaluation Decisions

When new ideas are proposed, they need to be evaluated in relation to each other. It can be effective to do this in a meeting when multiple perspectives and evaluations can be taken into account for the final decision.

MeetingSift is helpful for all group decision types across the board. Simply by creating an easier way to share and compare ideas, decisions come faster and are better. Try to identify which of these best fits the goals of the meeting before you schedule out time or decide talking points. Knowing where you want to end gives you the ability to guide the meeting participants toward that goal.