This book contains 27 principles and practices that can help your management and leadership team have more effective meetings with more efficient decision-making. These principles and practices raise the quality of the collaborative dialog, and help the team reach more inclusive decisions that the whole team feel committed to.
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Read a blog I wrote about decision-making, Efficient, effective and inclusive decision-making – A bold statement, a book and a video
Principles and practices covered in this book:
- Elect a facilitator
- Present, Discuss, Improve
- Fist of five survey
- Design decisions as experiments
- DIBB rationale narrative
- Enough info to proceed to decision?
- Good Enough for now, safe enough to try?
- Consent voting
- The wisdom of an qualified objection
- Extract and clarify agreements
- Declare intent and ask for objections
- Make decisions smaller
- Delegate decision mandate
- Clarify status quo
- When critical, accountable decides
- Make everyone heard – do rounds
- Individual thinking, then share
- Dot-vote priorities
- Poker voting
- Collaborative proposals, 1-2-4-All
- Hand Signals
- Park for later
- Timebox
- Summarize decisions
- Summarize actions and doers
- Document and communicate
- Check-out