Target population
- Students about to choose the next stream of study (e.g. at the end of
compulsory education). - High school graduates (e.g. whether to pursue higher education or begin with
the working life). - People in a professional crisis (e.g. fired, gone bankrupt).
- People discouraged by their current situation (e.g. dissatisfied with their jobs,
angry with their superiors, who cannot muster their strength to alleviate the
situation). - Parents who substitute themselves to their child as decision-makers, are
aware of and displeased with this reality and sincerely wish to remedy it. - People who have not made a significant progress in their professional life for
some time, and despite their jobs being safe and socially comfortable, feel the
need to move ahead or at least wish for novelty, even by engaging risk. - Easily to influence, emotionally and/or psychologically unstable people (e.g.
who have failed in previous decisions, who lay on the support of third parties,
who are responsible for others in conflict situations). - People who do not finalize what they have begun in their own interest (e.g.
exaggerated altruism, low self-esteem). - Employers having to decide for their employees (e.g. who to promote, how to
tell someone that they have been let go). - People in leadership positions of professional structures, who need to
harmonize the needs of beneficiaries, the requests of partners, the
expectations of funders, etc. - People recently integrated in a professional group and do not wish to trigger
astonishment or discontent on the part of their superiors (e.g. newly hired by
fierce competition, people unsure of their ideas and constructive potential,
people at the end of their careers).
There are not few the cases when not making a decision is preferable to a hurried /
regrettable or mistaken decision. We might say that in any decision there are the germs of
satisfaction or dissatisfaction, which is why not unusual to regret the choice made right
after expressing it, even if sure when making the choice; these are the doubters, the
excessively analytical and self-critical, the displeased with their own condition and
evolution, aspirants to an eternal “something else”. There are others who, once having
made the decision, no longer perceive the advantages of any alternative, nor the