Decision360 — A Workbook for Comparing Options and Trade-offs
Published by Force For Good Studio, the creator of this resource.
One option offers more income. Another protects your time. A third sounds promising, provided someone agrees to terms you haven’t discussed yet.
You have a list of advantages and disadvantages. You still need to decide which differences matter.
Decision360 is a practical decision-making workbook for comparing alternatives, consequences, and unknowns in one real decision. Created by Thomi Sechehaye at Force For Good Studio, it helps you establish priorities, investigate missing information, and record a choice or next step you can review.
Who Decision360 is for
The workbook suits professionals, independent workers, founders, and creative people who can name a decision but need a clearer way to examine it.
You might be considering a project, an opportunity, a change in responsibilities, or a commitment that affects other people.
You may also need to decide whether to ask for different terms before accepting.
Begin with what matters
An attractive option can still conflict with an essential requirement.
A project may pay well but require availability you cannot offer. A new responsibility may interest you while leaving an existing workload unresolved.
Decision360 asks you to establish your criteria before comparing options. That gives each comparison a purpose.
It also makes room for uncertainty. When an important fact is missing, finding it can become part of the decision process.
Try an eight-minute comparison
Choose two realistic responses to one decision.
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Write one requirement that either response needs to meet.
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Record what you know about how each response meets it.
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Identify one meaningful consequence of each.
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Name one unknown that could change your preference.
Here is a fictional example.
QuestionAccept the project as offeredRequest a later start
Essential requirementProtect the existing client deadlineProtect the existing client deadline
Current evidenceThe schedules overlapThe schedules would overlap less
ConsequenceEvening work would probably increaseThe new client might decline
Important unknownCan any deliverables move?Is the start date flexible?
The next action could be a question about scheduling. That answer may materially change the comparison.
How the full workbook develops the decision
Decision360 takes the reader through the question, circumstances, priorities, options, missing information, consequences, and follow-through.
It includes attention to what can be changed, what requires someone else’s agreement, and how easily a commitment could be revised.
The final record brings together the current choice or next step, its reasons, an accepted trade-off, remaining uncertainty, and a review point.
A useful outcome may be a decision. It may also be a focused investigation or a small test.
What to do with your comparison
Check whether the uncertainty you identified is consequential enough to investigate.
Ask a specific question of a suitable source. Give the investigation a time limit that fits the decision’s actual deadline.
If the information remains unavailable, record the assumption you would have to accept. You can then consider whether the commitment is workable under that uncertainty.
What the download includes
Decision360 includes printable and fillable PDF editions, a quick-start guide, and optional ChatGPT reflection prompts.
The workbook can be used independently. The prompts provide another way to examine your notes, options, and plan.
The quality of the comparison still depends on the information available. Commercial terms, qualifications, availability, and other consequential facts need checking with the relevant source.
A considered next step
If you have several plausible responses and need to understand their differences, Decision360 provides a structure for doing that work.
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