Now let’s focus on logical thinking.
Out of the solutions you have written down, select your best ideas.
- If anything looks out of your control, take it off the list now.
- If some solutions look similar, try to summarize them in a single one
- Evaluate all alternatives without bias
- Select the ideas that are more realistic and most likely
Now it’s time to evaluate your most promising solutions. Make a list of pros and cons!
In order to evaluate each solution, good questions to ask yourself include:
- How much resources (i.e. time, money, effort, etc) will the solution take?
- What is my emotional reaction (i.e. positive, neutral, negative) to this solution?
- What is the impact of this solution on other people?
- How much help from other people will the solution require?
Compare the solutions based on the advantages and disadvantages and choose the one that is most appropriate for you.
- The solutions don‘t necessarily exclude each other
- You need to make sure that you have the energy and motivation to carry out the solutions
- Make sure the solutions are realistic
- It is better to choose only one and do it well than to choose more and to abandon the plan
- Often the best solutions have mostly pros and the least amount of cons
Click on the names below to see ecah of your problem solving partner’s pros and cons lists:
