How to improve Team Decision making ?
Workshop designed using 4C model to discover how to reach strong inclusive agreements with consent in self-organized teams.
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Workshop designed using 4C model to discover how to reach strong inclusive agreements with consent in self-organized teams.
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Find a volunteer among the participants who recently had an issue regarding decision making inside his/her team.
Ask to the volunteer :
Draw a random card
Ask this question : "How this card represents the situation you encountered ?"
Ask for details on the card (only open questions)
Example : "What about this color ?"
The others are invited to ask questions as well
Once everyone understood the problem, the volunteer is invited to draw a second card
Ask this question : "How this card represents a solution to your previous problem that you could have experimented at the time ?"
The others are invited to ask questions as well
They can also propose solutions by referring to the card
Draw a last card :
Ask this question : "Imagine you had tried the solution you identified on the second card, what happened?"
What value did you see in this activity ?
What did you learn ?
How it has been helpful ?
The "feedforward" consists to formulate requests or propose future-oriented options or solutions, as opposed to the feedback technique, which looks back on a past situation.
Example : For your next report, I suggest that you divide the summary of your activities by date or by function (budget, planning, operations management, ...). So that it will be easier to read it, to find the information I need and to refer to it later.
Regarding decision making formulate a FeedForward to yourself : For your next ... I invite you to .... so that...
If you are OK, share it with the rest of the attendees
A simple ROTI :