A Decision Making Meeting is used by teams when they need to formally agree on a significant decision and secure commitment to act on that decision.
A decision-making meeting is a kind of team meeting, one that aims to reach a formal agreement on an important decision. Most of these meetings use a group decision-making process to understand the decision required, figure out possible solutions, and reach a final decision.
Deciding How to Design A Decision-Making Meeting
Here at Lucid Meetings, we’re largely generalists.
We conduct some original research, we run and support businesses, we make lots of decisions, and we work closely with the meeting facilitation community.
We read a lot.
When it came time to build a decision-making meeting template for leadership teams, we knew of so many fabulous resources we could.
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How often should a leadership team schedule a decision-making meeting?
There are two approaches to scheduling a leadership team’s decision-making meetings.
Or both! There’s no conflict there.
Leadership teams with an established meeting cadence proactively schedule 2 to 3 hours every month for making big decisions.
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Part 0: What Is A Decision?
Surprise! There’s a Part 0! What are we talking about when we say “Decision” anyway.
Decisions come in all flavors and sizes.
Before we get too far, let’s clarify the kind of decisions we’re scooping today.
William Starbuck, professor in residence at the University of Oregon’s Charles H.
Lundquist College of Business says: Awesome, but that “implie.
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Part 1: The Science of How We Make Decisions
A quick level-set: I earned my degree in theatre arts and am an internet software company founder.
In this arena, I’m simply playing bowerbird.
I’ve arrayed below the shiny bits of research that fascinate me, and which I’ve found useful in my own attempts to understand how to make better decisions.
Perhaps more importantly, they help me better dist.
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Part 3: The Organizational Effectiveness Perspective
Who should be involved in making each decision.
How do we get to a decision that will stick.
The last perspective we’ll explore looks at what it takes to turn decisions into the right kind of action.
In our review of the science, we learned about the many automated mental shortcuts and cognitive pitfalls that can trip us up individually, and how wo.
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Part 4: The Leadership Team’S Guide to Planning A Decision-Making Meeting
Alright! Time to put it all together.
Using the insights we’ve gained from science, business experts, and facilitators, let’s walk through making the Meta Decision and planning our meeting.
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What is a decision making meeting?
These resources will help you plan, run, and troubleshoot the specific Decision Making Meetings your team needs.
A Decision Making Meeting is used by teams when they need to formally agree on a significant decision and secure commitment to act on that decision.
Given the options before us, which one do we choose and why? .
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What makes an effective meeting?
An effective meeting should build alignment and commitment to any decisions.
Different approaches to reaching decisions can be more/less useful in building commitment.
And different approaches require different meeting actions.
Consent and compromise are two of these ways of reaching a decision with a group.. [ more ] Richard Lent, Ph.D.
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Why is a decision-making process important?
Creates clear accountability for the decision’s success; teams that can’t take personal responsibility for their decisions have no way to correct poor decision performance.
Provides a mechanism for group input; having the final decision doesn’t mean that this person has to think it through alone, or that they’re the only one with a valid opinion.
