Life Skills & Leadership: Unit 2, Session 3: Making Decisions | Page 60 of 127Trainer Material 2: Interpretation of Decision-Making
Question Cards
Here is a list of the Decision-Making Question Cards from Handout 3 and the recommended categories into which they
fit. Remember to ask participants to explain their own categorization of these cards because they might fit in more than
one category depending upon how one interprets or understands the question.
Pause:
What do I need to decide now?
What experience have I had with this before?
Is this a good situation or a bad situation?
Does this situation make sense?
Ask:
What can I do?
Can I do nothing?
Can I do the opposite?
Can I do more than one thing at the same time?
Can I combine two ideas into a new option?
Understand:
What’s the worst thing that might happen?
What’s the best thing that might happen?
What surprising thing might happen?
What would I usually expect to happen?
Select:
Is this a smart decision?
Which am I feeling: nervous, scared, happy, uneasy?
How would this decision affect my family?
Will this decision make my future better?
Evaluate:
Am I happy with the result?
How am I feeling after some time has passed?
Are there some new options I had not seen before?
Can I make some changes to my decision?