Coaching practices for Decision Journaling Learning to Decide Better Over Time with My Team

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  • I started writing my decisions down but I never actually go back to close the loop
  • I keep being so sure I’m right and then being wrong, and I have no way to see whether my confidence actually means anything
  • I beat myself up over a call that went badly even though it was reasonable with what I knew, and I pat myself on the back for a reckless one that happened to work
  • I agonize for days over tiny choices I could undo in a second, then rush the big ones I can’t take back
  • A call I could make in a day drags out for weeks because we keep circling it waiting for everyone to fully agree

Practices that may help

  1. Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
    A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time.
  2. Run a weekly decision review session
    Set aside 20 minutes each week to score past decisions and extract one lesson.
    Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
  3. Track your calibration across many predictions
    Score your confidence levels against outcomes over dozens of predictions to find your systematic biases.
    Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
  4. Score decision quality separately from outcome quality
    Judge the process you used — not whether it worked — when you review a past decision.
    Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
  5. Classify decisions by reversibility and stakes
    Sort decisions into low-stakes/high-stakes and reversible/irreversible before deciding.
    Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
  6. Disagree and commit — reduce the decision drag of endless debate
    Decisions that are made and executed at 80% confidence are almost always better than decisions endlessly refined but never taken.
    Designing a Calm Company (Fried & Hansson)
  7. Disagree and commit on two-way doors
    Voice your disagreement fully, then commit to the group decision and give it a genuine try.
    The Two-Way Door
  8. Keep a decision journal to score your EV estimates
    Log your probability estimates and payoff predictions, then compare them to what happened.
    Expected Value Thinking: Deciding Under Uncertainty
  9. Log the decision before the outcome
    Write what you decided, why, and what you expect — before you know how it turns out.
    Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
  10. Make decisions through debate, not declaration
    Multipliers use real debate to engage the team’s best thinking before deciding; Diminishers use meetings to announce.
    Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them

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