Coaching practices for Decision Review Ritual

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I started writing my decisions down but I never actually go back to close the loop
• 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
• We keep re-arguing the same decision we already settled weeks ago because no one wrote down what we chose or why
• Every time I review how I acted today I catch myself building a defense
• I agonize for days over tiny choices I could undo in a second, then rush the big ones I can’t take back

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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
3. Pair the RACI with a decision log
   Knowing who decides is only half the system — recording what was decided closes the accountability loop.
   The RACI Matrix, Made Practical
4. Seneca’s evening court — judge the day as an honest prosecutor
   Review the day as a fair judge would: what was the evidence, what was the verdict, what is the sentence?
   The Pythagorean Evening Review
5. 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.
6. 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
7. Debrief performances to recover from threat appraisals
   After a high-stakes event, restructure what happened to extract learning and reduce the residual threat signal.
   Challenge vs. Threat Appraisal, Made Practical
8. 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
9. Recognition-Primed Decision Making
   Gary Klein’s research found that experienced practitioners in high-stakes environments rarely compare options side by side. Instead, they recognize a situation as a familiar type, mentally simulate one course of action, and go with it if the simulation holds up — a process that is fast, accurate under time pressure, and breaks down predictably when the situation is genuinely novel.
10. Restudy decision protocol
    Use a defined decision rule — not a feeling — to determine which items get additional study.
    Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned

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