Peter's Health Blog: Making G.R.E.A.T decisions

There are many decision making models out in the world today. One we learned about in class is the G.R.E.A.T decision making model. GREAT is used for when people are in a pressured situation and want to make the "right" decision and don't know how choose or what said decision is. Some other ones that are also useful are the Seven Steps and SWOT. The Seven steps are more goal based and what you would like to achieve in blank amount of time, more information can be found at (http://www.decision-making-confidence.com/7-step-decision-making-model.html). SWOT (Strengths. Weaknesses. Opportunities. Threats.) is looking at what a person would want to do and what the best choice of getting there is for them, it is more of a personalized path to follow, more information is available at (http://www.decide-guide.com/swot.html).
These are all similar because they all are used in making a choice and following the choice to achieve something. But they are also based on different areas of choices that were mentioned earlier, like Seven Steps is for goal setting and achieving, SWOT is path planning and analyzing what path to take, GREAT is for peer pressure situations and what to decide and follow. GREAT is more of a general decision making model and not limited to only some areas of decision making. To get the most effective model out of these three I think that some situations are better thought through with different models, but if it is just a general view of effectiveness on decisions I would say that GREAT is the most effective because it is not just geared to one specific area of choices and decisions. That is why I think GREAT is more effective than the other models.