• Identify a physical setting for your meetings.
•Agree on how the decision will be made (consensus, majority
rule, etc.).
• Anticipate how you will deal with impasses and advocacy.
Completing each item in this worksheet will force you to think
about the decision-making context of your organization and ways
you can change it for the better.
Summing Up
• The organizational context for decision making has an impact
on how decisions will be made. A healthy context includes the
right people, puts them in an appropriate physical setting, en-
sures that they agree on how decisions will be made, and sup-
ports diverse views and healthy debate.
• When a group is ...