Steps in Decision Making
1. Identify the purpose: Why is a decision necessary? What needs to be determined? State the issue in the broadest possible terms.
2. Set the criteria: What needs to be achieved, preserved, and avoided by whatever decision is made? The answers to these questions are the standards by which solutions will be evaluated.
3. Weigh the criteria: Rank each criterion on a scale of values from 1 (totally unimportant) to 10 (extremely important).