Choice paralysis and decision facilitation
I reckon one of the next up and coming in-demand professional skills will have to be: the ability to help businesses (or individuals) make choices.
This would involve understanding the business’ or person’s needs, knowing who they are and what they stand for, identifying and shortlisting the most appropriate set of choices, presenting the most relevant choices, and guiding the selection of the best one. This requires a combination of different skills: understanding and empathy, research and analysis, strategy and planning, imagination, teaching and enlightening, coaching and mentoring. Behold the rise of the Decision Facilitator…
I am testing posterous as a means to channel frogpond stuff into this blog, plus adding snippets like the one above too
