030: Building Intuition with Decision Primed Recognition Framework

<p><strong>Intuition</strong>: the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.</p> <p>In business, it is more standard to rely on analysis than intuition.</p> <p>Intuition is a skill that can be built. You can learn to adjust your behavior to a set of cues in a manner that is more successful. As a matter of fact, there is even a term for it: Recognition Primed Decision.</p> <p>A situation generates clues. You recognize a pattern in those clues and activate action scripts that affect the situation.</p> <p><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/226247/Recognition_Primed_Decision.jpg" alt="" width="254" height="254" /></p> <p>In order to build your intuition at work, you can improve your intuition by learning this process:</p> <ol> <li>Identify the decisions that are part of your job.</li> </ol> <ul> <li>What makes those decisions difficult</li> <li>What are common errors</li> <li>How does someone with more experience than you make decisions</li> </ul> <ol start="2"> <li>Practice making decisions in context</li> </ol> <ul> <li>Think back to a situation you were in—what were the cues you picked up on and what did you miss?</li> </ul> <ol start="3"> <li>Practice with a co-worker who was in the situation with you to see what they picked up on that you didn’t</li> <li>Analyze your decision steps to identify what you would do differently next time</li> </ol>