Each issue of The Thought Provoker will pose one powerful question, which applied to your work over a period of time, will sharpen your thinking and help produce your best work.
 
What do your team members each do to get your attention?

 

Deep democracy is an approach used to enable teams to make decisions which everyone can commit to and bring to fruition. As it works on the basis of consensus, it's not  appropriate to all decisions. However, I've created a version that works for getting buy in to the decisions that have already been made.

 

1. State the decision

2. Ask for opinions on the decision

3. Ensure you ask for alternate opinions (surface the "no")

4. If necessary pose the alternate view to surface alternate views

5. Ask if other have this view (spread the "no")

6. Acknowledge that those with dissenting views are not getting what they want

7. Ask what it would take for them to come along with the decision

8. Build in the wisdom of the alternate view into the decision as appropriate

 

e.g. "Ok, so we'll launch in September (original decision) and we'll have immediate meetings with Estates and IT before we sign off on the final plan (wisdom of the alternate point of view).

 

 

When could this work for you? In what form or variation?