Improving Group Decision Making

Managing Groups and Stakeholders

Whatever your role or organization, most professionals must make a decision “now”—followed by another decision “now,” followed by yet another. It is also likely that you need to collaborate with a wide array of people in order to get this decision right.

The blistering pace of decision-making in today’s competitive business environment is enough to make anyone tired. But these very challenges can provide unprecedented opportunity and strategic advantage - if you can embrace the responsibility for making good, fast, frequent group decisions, and if you can do so better than your competitors.

This Learning Sprint helps teams to:

• Understand why a sound decision-making process will yield more consistently favorable outcomes over time
• Mitigate common pitfalls that impact groups while making decisions
• Identify and map stakeholders’ roles, power, and position in order to manage them more effectively
• Write an action plan to manage an upcoming group decision