Team Leadership: Decision-Making for Leaders Sample Agenda

Goals

• Agree upon what comprises a “good” decision.
• Understand various approaches to decision-making, the pros and cons of each and when to use.
• Understand the leader’s role in decision making (as a function of his/her team’s level of development).
• Practice delegating decisions as a team.
• Develop a plan, list of rules, protocols, etc. around decision-making that will develop a leader’s team.

Four-Hour Workshop

• Warm-up stretches.
• Discuss common barriers to making effective decisions.
• Facilitated team challenge to explore the concept of consensus.
• Apply a variety of decision-making methods to a facilitated challenge.
• Review four important questions for making team decisions.
• Learn how to research decisions and make informed decisions.
• Master several decision making tools including the Fist to Five method and the Decision-Making Tree.