I am a bit of a gardener. More because I like the physical work than the “creations” that result. Which means all my talk of VEGetables and hard-smart work of late is right up my alley (check out my recent blogs here).
Just to recap, VEG stands for Values, Environment and Genes, the three key factors that most influence your personal biases and hard-smart work is you going the extra mile that your competitors don’t.
What makes gardening interesting is all the options you have, the process you go through of deciding and the journey you travel as you implement your decision. There-in lies a secret to successful management of the blind spots to our decision making I have been talking about: Options.
Options not only help provide an intriguing journey of discovery, they help you overcome your blind spots. If you insist that every significant request of senior management for a decision is accompanied by several options, you and your team are forced to look at the original option in a different light.
Options. A very simple tool to manage your blind spots. Think of alternative ways of achieving the same goal.
Bryan is a management consultant operating since 2001, specialising in risk-based decision making and influencing decision makers, born from his more than twenty years of facilitating executive and board workshops.
Bryan’s experience as a risk practitioner includes the design and implementation of risk management programs for more than 150 organisations across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
Bryan is the author of Risky Business : How Successful Organisations Embrace Uncertainty; Persuasive Advising : How to Turn Red Tape into Blue Ribbon, and Team Think : Unlock the Power of the Collective Mind [to be published in 2022].
He is licenced by the RMIA as a Certified Chief Risk Officer (CCRO) and is the designer and facilitator of their flagship Enterprise Risk Course since 2019.
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