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Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making
By: Sam Kaner , Lenny LindeBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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"The best book on collaboration ever written!"
—Diane Flannery, founding CEO, Juma Ventures
And now this classic book is even better—much better. Completely revised and updated, the second edition is loaded with new tools and techniques. Two powerful new chapters on agenda design A full section devoted to reaching closure More than twice as many tools for handling difficult dynamics 70 brand-new pages and over 100 pages significantly improved
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| Title of Business & Economics eBook: Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making | |
| Release Date: 03-31-2007 | |
| Publisher: Jossey-Bass |
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Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making
Chapter One
THE DYNAMICS OF GROUP DECISION-MAKINGIDEALIZED AND REALISTIC MODELS OF COLLABORATION IN GROUPS
* Misunderstandings About the Process of Group Decision-Making
* The Struggle to Integrated Diverse Perspectives
* The Diamond of Participatory Decision-making
INTRODUCTION
This picture portrays a hypothetical problem-solving discussion.
Each circle -[??]- represents one idea. Each line of circles-and-arrows represents one person's line of thought as it develops during the discussion.
As diagrammed, everyone appears to be tracking each other's ideas, everyone goes at the same pace, and everyone stays on board every step of the way.
A depressingly large percentage of people who work in groups believe this stuff. They think this picture realistically portrays a healthy, flowing decision-making process. And when their actual experience doesn't match up with this model, they think it's because their own group is defective.
If people actually behaved as the diagram suggests, group decision-making would be much less frustrating. Unfortunately, real-life groups don't operate this way.
SAD BUT TRUE
Group members are humans. We do go on tangents. We do lose track of the central themes of a discussion. We do get attached to our ideas. Even when we're all making our best effort to "keep focused" and "stay on track," we can't change the fact that we are individuals with diverging points of view.
When a discussion loses focus or becomes conf
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