How to Be a Better Decision Maker (& Why It Matters)

10/12/23 • 17 min

The offseason is your time to sit down and reflect on where your business has been and where it’s going. You know that you need to have a growth mindset as an executive or entrepreneur so that your business can continue to flourish.

So you’ve got some decisions to make for the future. But how will your decisions impact the outcomes and objectives you want to reach going forward?

As we continue this offseason series on the Contractor’s Daughter, you’ll learn about what the decision-making process looks like, where it usually goes wrong, and how to be a better decision-maker. I’ll also teach you how making better choices can positively impact your business.

2:46 - Why the stakes of your decisions as a business owner are weightier

5:00 - Signs of suffering from decision fatigue and its impact

8:13 - How to avoid decision fatigue and make better choices

10:04 - An example of the effect of strategic decisions on your results

12:58 - Questions you might want to consider during your offseason

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So you’ve got some decisions to make for the future. But how will your decisions impact the outcomes and objectives you want to reach going forward?

2:46 - Why the stakes of your decisions as a business owner are weightier

5:00 - Signs of suffering from decision fatigue and its impact

8:13 - How to avoid decision fatigue and make better choices

10:04 - An example of the effect of strategic decisions on your results

12:58 - Questions you might want to consider during your offseason

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Why a Strategic Plan for Your Business Is a MUST

What’s next?

You’ve made the final push to get as much done as possible in your construction business before the arrival of the slow season. Now’s a good time to look at the big picture to see what your company needs to continue growing because if you’re not growing, you’re dying.

So today, in the first of a new three-part series, we confront the phenomenon known as the stall-and-die problem to understand it so you can prevent it from killing off your business.

In this episode of the Contractor’s Daughter podcast, you’ll hear about what can cause a lack of growth in companies. I’ll share the research I’ve done on the stall-and-die problem and how having a strategic growth plan can affect the continued success of your business.

1:45 - Why you want to stay out of the stall-and-die conundrum that businesses face (even if you’re profitable)

3:21 - What you need to consider to avoid going into a long stall period and risk business failure

6:02 - The effect of a strategic plan (or lack thereof) on a company’s employees

7:11 - An overarching look at what a strategic plan can look like

9:01 - The value of having strategic plans that the stats don’t show you

14:21 - How to learn where your company might be stalling and where you should focus first

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How to Execute Your Business Strategy On the Tactical Level

What is your next busy season going to look like?

Will your team be operating with a clear, strategic destination in mind? Will they know how they can get there and be able to make quick, smart decisions that move the business toward the goals you’ve set?

In the conclusion of this three-part series on Contractor’s Daughter, you’ll learn how to move from strategy to deploying the tactics that’ll move your business closer to your strategic objective or outcome. I’ll teach you how to narrow down which tactics to use and reveal three things every strategy must have so you can really leverage and get the most out of your offseason.

4:03 - Questions to ask yourself for each tactic you use for your strategic objective or outcome

9:14 - The three hurdles that every strategy must get over to make the final cut

10:36 - The part that a lot of companies forget without even realizing it

11:49 - How to shift from strategy and execute on the tactical level

16:09 - An example of how efficient a company can be with this process

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