Welcome to the free masterclass: Decide better, consistently.
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Self-diagnostic
How good a decision-maker are you?
First things first, you want to know where you're starting from.
This diagnostic covers six dimensions that matter for decision-making at work. It takes 10–15 minutes. There are 40 questions, either multiple choice or short answer. At the end you get a full profile: where your judgment is strongest, where it is most vulnerable, and what that means for the kinds of decisions you face every day.
A few things worth knowing before you start.
This is about your reasoning and judgment, not your personality or your intelligence. There are no good or bad profiles, only honest ones. The value is in seeing yourself clearly, not in scoring well.
This diagnostic was built on peer-reviewed research. What you're about to take isn't a quiz. It's the kind of tool we use with senior professionals and leadership teams, adapted here for individual use.
One more thing: answer as you actually are, not as you'd like to be. The profile is only useful if it's true.
Tools, popularly misunderstood
Where do most people get it wrong?
Now that you have your profile, a word before we continue.
For most of us, school never taught us how to make decisions. It taught us how to solve problems that already had answers. Decision-making (that is reasoning under uncertainty, with incomplete information, alongside other people) was left to experience. Which means most of us picked up habits along the way without anyone checking whether those habits were good ones.
The good news is that these skills are learnable. And often the fastest progress doesn't come from learning something new, but from correcting something you already do. Several of the most widely used decision tools are also widely misused. Small adjustments to how you apply them make a significant difference.
That's what this next section is about. Four tools you've almost certainly encountered. The ways most people use them. And what using them properly actually looks like.
The details matter. Let's get into them.
