Make your decision clearer
Compare your options based on what matters to you: add your options, define and weight your criteria, then score each option from 0 to 10. The results update automatically.
The result is a prompt for reflection, not a decision made for you. Your entries remain only on this page while you use the tool. Nothing is sent as an email or saved on the website. To keep your results, use “Print / save as PDF” before closing or refreshing the page.
Your decision
What options are you considering?
What matters?
Enter one criterion per box, then score every option from 0 to 10. Base each score on your own research, experience or gut feeling. “Not assessed yet” and “Not applicable” are kept separate.
What the numbers show
How this decision-making tool works
Some decisions are difficult because there is no obviously right answer. You may be comparing several good options, weighing competing priorities or trying to work out which compromises you are willing to make.
This free decision-making tool helps you compare your options using the criteria that matter to you. It is sometimes called a weighted decision matrix or decision-making calculator.
You add the options you are considering, choose your criteria and decide how important each one is. You then score each option against those criteria. The tool calculates the weighted results so you can see more clearly where the differences lie.
See an example: comparing two job offers
Imagine you are choosing between two job offers.
You decide that the things that matter most are interesting work, flexibility, stability, salary and commute. But they don’t all matter equally. Interesting work and flexibility are particularly important to you, while commute matters, but would not determine your decision on its own.
The tool takes the importance of each criterion into account when comparing the two options.
The result gives you another way to look at the decision. But pay attention to your reaction too.
If one option scores higher and your immediate thought is “Yes, but I still want the other one,” that is useful information. There may be something important that your criteria haven’t captured yet.
Weighing priorities and identifying non-negotiables
Not everything matters equally. Salary might be important in a job decision, for example, but perhaps flexibility, stability or meaningful work matters more to you. Weighting your criteria lets those priorities influence the result accordingly. A non-negotiable is different. It is something an option needs to meet for you to seriously consider it. Identifying these separately can help distinguish between something you would prefer and something you genuinely need.
When can a decision matrix help?
A weighted decision matrix can be useful whenever you are comparing options with several competing factors. You might use it to compare job offers, think through a career change, choose between courses, consider a move or work through an important personal decision. It is particularly useful when you keep going over the same arguments in your head and want to put them somewhere you can actually see them.
What do the results tell you?
The highest score isn’t automatically the right decision. The numbers simply show what happens when you apply the priorities and scores you entered. Sometimes the result confirms what you already suspected. Sometimes two options turn out to be much closer than expected. And sometimes the result says one thing while your instinct says another. That can be useful too. You may have missed an important criterion. Something you thought mattered may matter less than you expected. A non-negotiable may be emerging. Or your reaction to the result may tell you something that the numbers cannot.
The aim isn’t to let a calculator make your decision for you. It is to make the decision easier to examine.
The score is only part of the decision.
A calculator can make your priorities and trade-offs more visible, but it cannot capture everything that matters. Coaching gives you space to explore what the result brings up, challenge assumptions and find a next step that feels right for you.
DECISION COACHING
Decision Clarity
€150 · 90 min
One focused session to explore your result, challenge assumptions and identify what you need in order to move forward.
Decision to Action
€420 · 3 × 90 min
Three sessions to move from clarity through exploration to a practical next step.
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