How to make a professional choice suitable for you

Sometimes we have several interesting proposals in our work, whether for a new position or change to something totally different. Given this, how to know what decision?

How to make difficult business decisions

Are you a professional decision that has you standing? Suppose that there was a vacancy in another company and you Department because you’re also good at yours, or that you’re weighing up two interesting posts and don’t have clear which is right for you, or that you were asking you to ask for a promotion or a position in another Department in your workplace, but you don’t have clear. If you are (or you could be in the future) in either of these situations, how to choose the most suitable option for you? With what you be more satisfied?

Before you decide define your objective

We assume that you have a career goal clear, that you’ve taken the trouble to think and decide what type of career want to follow and now have questions between different options that are equally attractive and interesting. If still not your professional goal you’ve posed you that is the first step, so don’t you go stumbling of a job to another without rhyme or are.

Steps to take before a professional decision

To my I like especially to help my clients to take such decisions because, although having options is a good thing, no one takes that you may have too much pressure when deciding. I usually suggest a series of steps to clarify his ideas a little and that they can take the decision with more tranquility. Why I liked an article I read some time ago in Mind Tools (excellent website with many resources, by the way) where explained three steps to follow in
this situation, with which I agree completely:

1. rational analysis
2. analysis of your priorities
3. emotional analysis

Analysis and priorities of each factor

On the one hand, should take into account a number of factors and how the option in question conforms to these factors. But not only are important factors but the priority you give to each factor. The type of work or the situation and for another person salary or responsibility involving can be particularly important for you. In addition to these rational factors, it must also take into account the emotional part; What tells you your intuition.

For rational analysis you must have account factors such as salary, objectives to achieve, what is expected of your post, if there will be people to your charge, required skills, promotion opportunities, travel, company culture, resources that have, etc.

Once you have this clear, it is the time to analyze your personal priorities. How these factors fit together with what you want. We are all different and what for some may be great maybe you don’t want it to see in painting. Therefore begins to consider if your workplace would like you, if you could develop your full potential, if it gives you the stability/variety/challenge that you are looking for, if you are willing to lead a team or prefer not to do it, if you feel better working in team or on your own, if it is essential to have much creative, future prospects time transfer, holiday, and all the things that you are essential to feel satisfied at work. And don’t forget to analyze the economic part, which may have more influence on your decisions of what you believe.

In short, make a list of the criteria that are important to you, sort them by order of priority and start to rate each option for each of the criteria. Once you have clear the pros and cons of each option (you take all the time you need) comes in the third part, the emotional. How do you feel when you think of each one of the options? Which is consistent with your objectives and your ideal of life? If you do not feel well, finds out the cause, perhaps there is something that you have not taken into account. If you feel satisfied emotionally and rationally with your decision then forward.

There are many ways of making decisions, but there are certain circumstances in which the pressure is such that you need to have the maximum information possible to feel that you’ve made a good decision. In this case, this option of 3 steps: rational analysis, your priorities and emotional analysis, might help you more.