Performance Under Pressure: Taking Action - Generate and Evaluate Solutions

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Once you've defined your challenge and identified your goal, the third step is to generate and evaluate possible solutions. This involves thinking about what kind of actions you could take and the effects they may have. You can begin by imagining a variety of alternative solutions to the problem.
Generating Solutions
Then try to think of any potential negative effects. You may also want to discuss solutions with a colleague or mentor. For example, perhaps you're thinking of how to manage a difficult customer. Having an experienced colleague evaluate your solutions may be helpful.
Finally, select the best solution from your list. This may be the one that's most practical, or that offers the most advantages and fewest drawbacks.
Evaluating Potential Solutions
Considering a variety of solutions increases the value of the action you ultimately decide on. This is because it not only allows you to think about what else you could've done, but also provides you with a clear rationale for your decision.
Ralph considers potential solutions. He thinks he could appeal to the funding agency to renegotiate the project budget. Alternatively, he could ask the other engineers for ways to reduce the construction costs. Or he could stay the course and hope that if he does go over budget, the agency will be forced to cover the extra costs.
Ralph thinks that the first option is unlikely, since the agency isn't known for loosening budgetary constraints. Similarly, if he doesn't redesign the project, it will almost certainly exceed the revised budget, which will have serious consequences.
Ralph decides that he should meet with his team of specialists to find options for reducing the cost of the project.
Exercise - Generating and Evaluating Solutions
Blanche is a writer at a magazine. She hasn't been able to confirm several quotations she plans to include as part of her story and her deadline is drawing near.
Which actions are appropriate for the third step of the method?
Options:
1 - Suggest changing the focus of the story to highlight her confirmed research.
2 - Consider that if she keeps the story as it is, and the unchecked quotations are discovered, she could lose her job.
3 - Ask another journalist to have a look at her options.
4 - Ask to have her deadline extended. (...)

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