It's Not Working.

John is a manager who tosses a coin to decide half his decisions, only implements about two out of ten effectively anyway, and bases the majority on practices that are proven to fail.

John should be terminated.

Yet John is the average manager.

45% of managers use instinct to make decisions.

Only 15% of organisations can make and implement important decisions effectively.

Two of every three business decisions are based on failure prone practices.

95% of a typical workforce does not understand the organisation’s strategy.

90% of organisations fail to execute on strategies.

86% of executive teams spend less than one hour per month discussing strategy.

76% of Australian workers are disengaged from their jobs.

Australian bosses lose an average of three months per year productivity from each worker due to disengagement.

Australia ranks second last on productivity growth – ahead of Botswana.
 
 

Is the above average worker profile any wonder when John is her boss?

There is evidence that many organisations' priorities are not defined by productivity, customer or community service, share value or sales growth. They are defined by self-interest.

And yet...

Prescriptive decision making strategies [ie The Five Steps] in workplaces were more successful no matter what the urgency, importance, resource level, initial support, decision-maker level, industry sector or type of decision.

Want to be a 'high performing team'?

Teach and apply good decision making.