Episode description
Why do people procrastinate and hold back from making important decisions? In this episode, the Chief Psychology Officer shares some lessons we can all learn from decisive leaders and the reasons why people procrastinate. Amanda will also look at what happens from a neuroscientific perspective when people hold back from making decisions.
Amanda will look at the data from executive assessments to understand how highly effective leaders make decisions, and offers a simple 6 step approach for coaches to work with their clients, and for individuals to try to overcome procrastination and be more decisive. Amanda will also look at the different decision styles and the role of emotions in decision making.
In this episode, Amanda is being interviewed by Tim Hepworth.
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Timestamps
Be Decisive: Fight the Urge to Procrastinate
- 00:00 – Introduction to Being Decisive
- 00:29 – Are you a procrastinator?
- 01:07 – Researching Procrastination or Decision Making?
If Decisiveness was a person…
- 02:24 – What does a highly decisive leader look like?
- 03:12 – Any decision is better than no decision
- 05:05 – Acting on impulse
- 05:36 – Problems of consensus driven businesses
- 06:01 – 35,000 subconscious decisions a day
- 06:11 – 70 actual decisions a day
- 06:21 – 7-10 significant decisions a day
- 07:19 – 10 ways of making a decision
There’s a lot of control in this next bit
- 08:11 – 5 scales of Decision Styles
- 08:30 – Internal Locus of Control explained
- 08:50 – External Locus of Control explained
- 09:18 – Example of personal decision making
- 10:27 – Agile vs Fixed Decision Style
- 12:07 – I can justify anything
- 13:03 – Myers/Briggs scale of judgement
- 13:48 – Leave what you hate till last…
Sorry it took so long to get to this bit!
- 14:02 – 95% of people procrastinate
- 14:09 – 25% of adults are chronic procrastinators
- 14:36 – Greatest risk of procrastination
- 15:28 – Teams pay the price of waiting
- 16:14 – Traits that identify procrastinators
- 16:29 – Perfectionism
- 17:01 – Example of perfectionism
- 18:37 – It all comes from a good place
- 19:43 – Question your ability
- 20:27 – Need for certainty & control
- 21:28 – Summary of the List
Negative thoughts lead to negative things
- 22:04 – Do negative emotions impact decisions?
- 23:36 – Healthy Habits revisited
- 24:01 – What happens when we procrastinate?
- 24:14 – Displacement
- 25:04 – Procrastination or bad time management?
- 25:42 – Br
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