Document and presentation on tools and techniquesWhat will I eat for lunch? What time do I leave for work today? What will I do tonight for fun? All of these questions are examples of decisions I need to make. Decision making is the cognitive process that leads to choosing a course of action among alternatives. Every decision-making process produces a final choice; therefore, it can be an opinion or an action. It all starts when we have to do something, but we don't know what. Decision making is therefore a reasoning process that can be rational or irrational. (Wikipedia, 2007)When we make the choice needed to make a decision, we should choose a tool or technique that can help us make the correct choice possible. The technique I chose is called "Six Thinking Hats." This technique will help you consider the decisions you need to make from different perspectives. It will also allow you to break out of your normal way of thinking. That said, it will help you understand the full depth of your decisions. It will also allow you to spot problems and opportunities that you may not have noticed beforehand. (Mind Tools, 2007) For many of us, when we choose to make decisions, we use our rational side and forget to look at decisions from a creative, emotional, intuitive, or even negative point of view. When decisions are made this way, we underestimate resistance to plans, fail to take creative steps, and fail to make essential contingency plans. However, if we choose to use the Six Thinking Hats technique, we will be able to mix emotion, execution, sensitivity, creativity and good contingency planning. (Mind Tools, 2007) The Six Thinking Hats technique consists of six different hats with six different thinking styles. The first hat is the white hat or “the facts, just the facts.” (The de Bono Group, 2007) This hat is more focused on the available data. With this hat, you need to look at all the information in front of you and see what you can learn from it. That said, you also need to be able to see if any gaps exist, and if there are, you need to be able to fill them or take them into account..