Counseling Center, Career Assessment

Decision Making Styles

People use different decision making styles in different situations.  Check out the decision styles below and see which styles you have used in the past.

Impulsive

Select an alternative on impulse and without much thought

Fatalistic

Leaving a decision up to fate

Compliant

Letting someone else decide for you

Delaying

Holding off on making a decision

Agonizing

Becoming overwhelmed by the alternatives

Planning

Using an organized approach with a balance between thoughts and feelings

Intuitive

Doing what "feels right"

Paralysis

Unable to face up to making a decision

Which style(s) do you think might be the best for making career decisions?  If you said Planning combined with Intuitive, you’re probably on the right track.

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