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Decision Making in Groups
This title is part of the Take Away Training Series
Duration: 15 minutes
Synopsis
Learn the six most effective ways to make decisions. Prepare for team, task force, quality group or committee meetings.
Key Learning Points

Problems with group decisions:

  • Avoid - leave for next meeting
  • Take too long to make trivial decisions
  • Poor quality - compromise
  • Lack of commitment to the decision

Concensus decision making:

  • Harnesses group resources - synergy
  • Encourages participation - high commitment
  • Time consuming
  • Requires skills such as listening, flexibility...

Majority vote decision making:

  • 51% agree - majority committed, minority lack commitment
  • Quick - useful if time limited
  • Quality issue - consider importance of the decision

Minority vote decision making:

  • Working party
  • Speed and efficiency
  • Potential for low commitment

Expert decision making:

  • One person with special knowledge, vested with authority
  • From inside or outside the group
  • Technical matters, emergencies, safety matters

Random choice decision making:

  • Flipping coin, selecting straws
  • From inside or outside the group
  • Evenly balanced issues - with limited time available

Agree on up-front decision making technique:

  • Choose best style and implement it
  • How quickly decision needs to be made
  • How important decision is
  • Resources available - inside and outside the group
  • Skills available

Gut-feeling decision making:

  • It 'feels right'
  • New research on non-logical, 'gut-feeling' - intuition
  • Increase in corporate focus on intuition, creativity
Package Description
DVD
Recommended Audiences
  • Managers
  • All staff
Distributed in the following format(s)
  • DVD
Available in the following language(s)
  • English
Media Type
 Video Recording
Presentation Style
  • Interview
STOCK CODE
TAT43
ISBN
9781925287479
Published
Melbourne
Filming location
Australia
Release year
2001
Remastered year
2006
Copyright owner
ClickView
Publisher
Seven Dimensions