| Building
Better Decision Making Bodies
This
workshop includes two segments. It gives your decision making team
the tools it needs to work well together, coherently and cohesively.
These tools will enable your team to remain focused on its mandate,
make smart and strategically-driven decisions, maximize opportunities,
minimize exposure to risk, and have productive and inclusive meetings.
Segment
1:
The Foundation for Shared Decision Making |
Segment
2:
Meetings & Rules of Order |
In this segment of the workshop, we discuss how to construct
a solid foundation for shared decision-making for your decision
making team. We present tools to help make your collective
decisions more proactive, visionary, smart, sustainable
and inclusive. Specific topics include:
- Measuring
Board or Council effectiveness .
- Measuring
the quality of collective decisions.
- Roles
of the Board Chair or Mayor.
- Roles
of voting members.
- Roles
of senior administrative staff, committees.
- Decision
making models: Consensus, Majority.
- Minority's
duty to respect collective decisions.
- Placing
collective interests ahead of narrow ones.
- Conflict
of interest guidelines.
- Confidentiality
guidelines ("in-camera meetings").
- Dealing
with team dysfunctions.
- Community
and stakeholder relationships.
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In this segment of the workshop we present tools to make
your future meetings productive, timely, inclusive, and
even enjoyable. We also demystify and humanize the rules
of order for meetings and teach you to use them sensibly
and intelligently. Specific topics include:
- Ten key
ingredients of a successful meeting.
- Proactive
and visionary planning of meetings.
- Chair's
roles and member's roles in a meeting.
- Managing
people, time and issues in a meeting.
- Keeping
a meeting on track and on time.
- Handling
counter-productive behaviours.
- Shifting
from rules of order to core principles.
- Shifting
from "parliamentarese" to plain language.
- Majority,
tie votes, abstentions, quorum.
- Chair's
debating and voting rights.
- Handling
Main Motions, Amendments.
- Motions
to postpone, refer, "table", others.
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