BeTalent Decision Styles
Improve the quality of critical decisions
A BPS-verified psychometric that reveals decision preferences and helps organisations strengthen leadership judgement.
“The Decision Styles Questionnaire is a well-presented measure. It has the potential for adding considerable value to development and coaching discussions.”
- British Psychological Society feedback
Better decisions start before the decision is made
Executive teams are rarely short of expertise. The challenge is knowing how a decision should be approached, who needs to contribute and where ownership sits.
BeTalent Decision Styles makes those hidden preferences visible. It shows how leaders approach pace, risk, evidence, consultation and control, helping teams avoid circular debate, premature consensus and decisions shaped too heavily by hierarchy or bias.
The result is a more intentional decision process, matched to the stakes and demands of the situation.
Decisive leadership in uncertain times
In uncertain times, decisive leadership is not simply about moving faster. It is about knowing when to act, when to challenge and when a decision requires deeper exploration.
BeTalent Decision Styles helps leaders understand where AI can support analysis and reduce cognitive load, and where human judgement, challenge and accountability must remain central. This gives organisations a stronger foundation for executive coaching, team development and more intentional leadership decision-making.
How the BeTalent Decision Styles Assessment Works
BeTalent Decision Styles uses clear, workplace-based statements to identify how people typically approach decisions.
Responses are mapped across 10 dimensions of decision-making, revealing preferences around pace, risk, evidence, consultation, control and responsibility. The results are translated into individual and team reports that support executive coaching, leadership development and more effective decision processes.
Developed by organisational psychologists and rigorously validated, the assessment measures
10 dimensions
of workplace decision making
Together, these dimensions show how people gather information, involve others, evaluate options and move into action, helping leaders adapt their approach to the demands of the decision.
Create greater balance in how decisions are made
Effective decisions rarely come from one style alone. They depend on balancing pace with reflection, intuition with evidence, independence with consultation, and caution with calculated risk.
BeTalent Decision Styles group reporting makes the team’s decision-making diversity visible. It shows where particular preferences dominate, where contrasting perspectives may be underused and where the group could benefit from a broader range of approaches.
See where the balance sits
Understand which decision preferences dominate across the team and where important perspectives may be underused.
Adapt to the decision
Shift the balance and flex decision preferences according to the stakes, urgency, complexity and reversibility of the choice.
Use cognitive diversity deliberately
Bring contrasting approaches into the process to strengthen challenge, reduce premature consensus and improve the quality of critical decisions.
When to use BeTalent Decision Styles
BeTalent Decision Styles is most useful when organisations need greater clarity, balance and accountability in how important decisions are made.
During transformation and strategic change
Use Decision Styles when leaders are navigating uncertainty, shifting priorities or major organisational change. It helps teams decide when to move quickly, when to widen challenge and how to balance risk aversion with calculated risk.
For executive and board decision-making
Support senior teams to understand how pace, evidence, consultation, confidence and hierarchy are shaping critical decisions. The assessment helps clarify who contributes, who challenges and where ownership ultimately sits.
As part of leadership development
Use individual and group reports in executive coaching and facilitated workshops to help leaders understand the impact of their decision preferences, recognise bias and adapt their approach to the demands of the situation.
To strengthen team collaboration
Make cognitive diversity visible across the team. Group reporting shows where particular styles dominate, where contrasting perspectives are underused and where premature consensus or circular debate may be weakening the process.
For talent assessment
Explore how decision-making preferences align with role demands, particularly where leaders need to exercise judgement under pressure, minimise unnecessary exposure and act on emerging opportunities.
From diagnostic profiling, insights can be applied to live business challenges and embedded into leadership, governance and assessment processes.
What this gives you
Clear, actionable reporting
Personal and summary reports translate complex decision preferences into visual, accessible insights that support reflection, coaching and more focused development conversations.
A shared language for decisions
A practical framework that helps leaders discuss pace, risk, evidence, consultation and ownership more openly, without reducing people to fixed types.
Team and organisational patterns
Group reporting reveals decision-making trends across functions, teams or leadership levels, helping organisations see where particular approaches dominate and where greater balance may be needed.
Flexible development support
Use the assessment through executive coaching, facilitated workshops or internal accreditation, with tailored recommendations that help leaders apply the learning to live business challenges.
Bring Decision Styles into your work
Use BeTalent Decision Styles in executive coaching, leadership programmes, team workshops and talent assessment. Personal, summary and group reports give practitioners a structured evidence base for exploring individual preferences, team patterns and alignment with role demands.
Become accredited to use the assessment with your own clients or within your organisation, or partner with our psychologists to design and deliver work around high-stakes decisions, transformation and leadership judgement.
Our Work with Decision Styles
Learn how other organisations have benefited from BeTalent Decision Styles Here are just a select few case studies showcasing our work.
Improving executive decision clarity
BeTalent Decision Styles helped the AtkinsRéalis executive team make its decision-making patterns more visible. By exploring how leaders approached pace, risk, evidence, consultation and responsibility, the team was able to clarify ownership, streamline processes and make decisions more effectively together.
Building decision capability in senior leaders
Salt & Light Leadership Coaching used BeTalent Decision Styles to strengthen its consulting offer and support clearer, more effective decision-making by senior leaders and teams.
Built on robust psychological science
BeTalent Decision Styles was developed by organisational psychologists and is grounded in research into judgement, risk, bias and workplace decision-making.
BPS verified
Measures 10 dimensions of decision-making
Designed for practical workplace application
