I find this topic very interesting: lets look at the problems with decision making strategies. Sometimes people have problems generating options in making a decision and that might mean theres no visual construct, theres not enough options or choices and they might have an either or choice.

Often times clients limit themselves with an exclusive or and thats where they say, Ill have to do this or that. I can’t decide whether I should do this or that and the answer of course is that they could do lots of other things other than just this or that. Sometimes clients limit themselves by only having one choice. In any case you can also add in a number of choices by simply changing the decision making strategy.

Another possibility of course is the person generates too many choices with no way to exit and no way to get out and these are the people who say, Oh Ive got so many things I could do but I can’t possibly decide about what I want to do. So all of those can be cleaned up by simply changing the strategy and you have to talk to the client and find out if its, if you need to change the chunk size or whatever you need to change.

There may be a problem representing what the options are in the decision making strategy. Options may not be represented in all representational systems which make it difficult to evaluate them. The person may need to go external to get data to represent the options; and options and criteria may not be revised according to whats doing on in their environment so they may have outdated options or criteria. All of those can be cleared up by simply having the person go external. The problems may include evaluating the options. There may be criteria for selection which are inappropriate or the criteria or values may not be prioritised. Generally when a client is a criteria problem, criteria are considered sequentially and separately rather than simultaneously and a polarity response is an example.

Generally if a person has criteria problems it may be necessary to go and fix those in working with values and the problem is that were now beginning to move in more details and values. The person may not get an overall evaluation of each criteria. So those are some possibilities that could result in problems with decision making strategies. This type of issues you can always see in NLP training and in NLP courses. That’s why NLP has a huge potential to understand the real motivation strategies.