Imagine for a moment that you show up in your leadership role today and that you have the opportunity

to rescue someone from a bad decision they're about to make.

Let's say for the purpose of argument

that the decision will be inconvenient to you or your organization,

that the decision will waste time

and potentially even cost money,

but that it wouldn't be disastrous.

Do you step in and rescue that person from making that poor decision.

Today's guest will not answer that question for us.

However, today's guest will challenge all of us

to ask that question in a different way and think through frameworks to help

us make a better decision.

This is Coaching for Leaders, Episode Number 92. Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

Hello to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your

host Dave Stahoviac. This is a weekly coaching show to help people be better leaders through improved communications,

human relations, and personal productivity.

When I first became a leader and a manager I made some poor choices as many of us do when we get into

leadership management roles for the first time.

And one of the areas I struggled with extensively

was not, it was having difficulty

when decisions weren't black and white decisions.

I always wanted to be able to check the box. Yes, no, black, white. And I found that I would struggle in situations where I sometimes needed to make that call in that gray zone as a leader or as a manager

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