Improving team decision making

Decision making is a complex activity that we can improve using many different approaches. Here are some of our favorite starting points.

CONCEPTS

+Intro: Improving team decision making

Decision making is a complex activity that we can improve using many different approaches. Here are some of our favorite starting points.

+Adaptive leadership

Adaptive leadership is a leadership framework that helps individuals and organizations adapt and thrive in challenging environments. It is being able, both individually and collectively, to take on the gradual but meaningful process of change.

+Facilitation

On the art and science of bringing people together for shared thinking.

+Interpersonal communications

Help for connecting within teams.

+Managing better

How to be useful to the teams we lead.

+Powerful questions

How can we ask the most impactful questions of our teams and ourselves?

+Overcoming triggers

We’re going to get activated by our work, so how do we handle those moments productively?

+Collaboration

Tools for learning to building better team work.

+Implicit bias

Implicit bias is just one of the many biases that undermine our decision making. This concept explores a popular form of bias, but check out improving team-decision making to get underneath other forms of bias.

Shared leadership and governance options

Virtual organizing and meeting

SWITCH PATHWAYS

Pathway 1 | Preparing for Change

Pathway 2 | Awareness: Aligning Intention and Action

Pathway 4 | Action: Working on Structures

Pathway 5 | Action: Improving Team Health

Pathway 6 | Accountability: Testing Ideas

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