Analysis template · 28 topics
Decision making mind map template
A decision making mind map with what matters, options, trade-offs, unknowns, a gut check and a final choice, to weigh a hard choice on one page.
Who it is for
- Someone choosing between two job offers, cities or courses.
- A team picking a tool, supplier or plan.
- A person who keeps going back and forth and wants to see the trade-offs.
How to use it
- Open the template and write the decision as a question in the central topic.
- List two or three real options, then compare them under Trade-offs and Unknowns.
- Check them against What matters, write the choice and set a date to review it.
The outline
Every topic in the template, as it opens in the editor.
Decision making
- The decision
- The question, written as a choice
- When it has to be made
- Who lives with the result
- What matters
- Must have
- Nice to have
- What I would regret ignoring
- Options
- The obvious choice
- The bold choice
- Doing nothing for now
- Trade-offs
- What each option costs in money and time
- What each option rules out
- Which one is easiest to reverse
- Unknowns
- Facts I could check this week
- Assumptions I am treating as facts
- Whose advice I trust here
- Gut check
- The option I hope wins a coin toss
- What I would tell a friend in my place
- Choice
- Decision and the reason in one sentence
- First step, and when
- Date to look back on it
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