Every action starts as a thought. Learn the four-stage Action Process — imagination, thinking, decision, action — and how to stop impulses skipping straight to the end.
By the end, you can
name the four stages of the Action Process, spot a skipped stage, and explain how information shapes each one.
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The Action Process: Imagination, Thinking, Decision and Action
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You hear a colleague "badmouthed" you in a meeting. A minute later you have sent an angry reply to the whole team. An hour later you learn it was misheard.
You went from a picture in your head straight to action. Smart Decision Training describes an Action Process behind what we do, and warns: do not rush into action before you have clearly thought and decided.
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