#490 Ask the Expert: How To Make Better Decisions with Andrew Likierman

Squiggly Careers

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Business, Management, Careers

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Are you making big decisions without applying real judgement? In this Ask the Expert episode, Sarah speaks with Sir Andrew Likierman about what good judgement looks like at work—and how to improve it. They talk about the difference between decisions and judgement, the stages of the judgement process, how to get better at reading the (virtual room) and learn from poor choices. You’ll learn how to apply a practical framework to improve your own judgement, no matter your role. 🥇 Sign up for the Skills Sprint here: https://bit.ly/41jasYO ⏱️ Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 00:54 Is judgement a quality or skill? 01:50 Judgement and decision-making 05:25 The 6 stages of the judgement process 08:43 Establishing a trusted person 10:06 Reading the room, zoom or teams meeting 13:21 Understanding your strengths and weaknesses 16:54 Famous examples of bad judgement 18:11 The importance of listening 19:24 Persevering when it's time to stop 22:33 Common watch-outs with judgement 23:35 Should you trust instinct & gut feeling? 25:43 Managing risk 29:22 Final thoughts 🎯 What You’ll Learn - The difference between decision-making and judgement - A 6-step process to improve judgement - How to trust wisely, read the (virtual) room, and stay aware - Why feelings, experience, and listening all shape judgement - How to develop your personal judgement 📚 Resources Mentioned Andrew's Book: Judgement at Work: Making Better Choices - https://bit.ly/458TWvJ Actions Speak Louder Than (Listening) To Words: https://cclinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/actions-speak-louder-than-words.pdf Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman - https://bit.ly/4m8OyQ2 Blink by Malcolm Gladwell: https://bit.ly/3J76pIM For questions about Squiggly Careers or to share feedback, please email helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers: 📩 Download our free career tools: https://www.amazingif.com/toolkit/ 🏃‍♀️ Join our next Skills Sprint: https://bit.ly/skillssprint2024 📮 Get Squiggly Careers in Action in your inbox: https://bit.ly/SquigglyCareersInAction 📚 Read our books: The Squiggly Career and You Coach You: https://www.amazingif.com/books/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, my name's Sarah and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast.
0:07.1	This week is one of our Ask the Expert episodes and you'll hear me in conversation with Sir Andrew
0:13.5	Likeman talking about judgment. I always think judgment is a fascinating topic. Is it a skill?
0:20.0	Is it a quality? How do we get better at it? It can
0:23.2	sometimes feel a bit elusive. How do you get better at reading the room, the Zoom, the team's meeting,
0:28.4	whatever it might be? And I think Andrew has some really practical reflections and ideas that I hope
0:33.4	you're all going to find useful. So I hope you enjoy listening and be back at the end to say
0:37.7	bye.
0:40.3	Andrew, thank you so much for joining us on the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm really looking forward to our
0:44.7	conversation today. Well, thanks so much for inviting me. And we're going to dive straight into
0:48.7	this idea of judgment because I think it is an elusive behaviour.
0:58.0	So from all of the work and the research you've done, is it a quality?
0:59.3	Is it a skill?
1:01.5	What's our starting point when we think about judgment?
1:05.5	Well, it's a combination of a quality and a skill, if I can put it that way.
1:08.1	It's not easily categorisable.
1:12.5	And that's exactly why I wrote this book, because I thought to myself,
1:17.8	here's something that's really important and people value and they say they want. And yet,
1:22.3	we don't quite know what it is. So that's the basis of the work. So to answer your question,
1:31.0	is it a quality or a skill? It's a bit of both. It's a quality because it's something which we as individuals have,
1:35.6	which combine a number of factors within ourselves that we have to use when exercising it.
1:38.9	And so is it a skill as well?
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