Unknown unknowns
Unknown unknowns
Lightning Decision Jam
Reading Time: 4 minutesLightning Decision Jam (LDJ) is a format for group decisioning. All open, unstructured discussion are replaced with a clear, timeboxed structured process. LDJ has its background in design thinking.
Decisions
Decisions
Achieving Consensus
Achieving Consensus
Debate vs Dialogue
Debate vs Dialogue
Systemic Consensing — What the Hell is this?
Reading Time: 4 minutesConsensus is time-consuming agreement, accord. Consensing instead is defined as having no significant objection. It does not require agreement, affirmation or even preference. Consent is reached by choosing the proposal with the least objections. The lowest level of objection — resistance — results to the highest acceptance.
Consensing — How to Boost Your Slow Deciding Company
Reading Time: 4 minutesYou can kill your business or any change initiative easily by traditional consensus-based decision-making. However, you can boost your organisational decisioning dramatically by systemic consensing. Systemic Consensing does not require any alignment of agreements, affirmation or even preference but rather an alignment of tolerances. The consent is reached by choosing the proposal with the least objections only.
Techniques for Decision-making
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere are several methods for Decision-making you can use in group decisioning or group facilitation. All of these are variants of Consensus-based decisioning or Majority Voting — aka Democratic Voting. A completely different approach is systemic consensing.
You Consent, I Dissent — The Five Levels of Agreement
Reading Time: 3 minutesMaking decisions by consensus, people seldom agree equally to the decision found. Instead, they commit themselves to their own level of personal agreement. All of a sudden, you have ignored several levels of agreement. And sometimes to disagree is a sign of commitment. - Weird, isn't it?
Coloured Cards Voting
Reading Time: 2 minutesColoured Cards Voting is a simple version of the group decision Five-to-Fold facilitation for decision-making. A group has to decide in a very short time on a proposal and possible alternatives to solve the issue.