How Great Decisions Get Made: 10 Easy Steps for Reaching Agreement on Even the Toughest Issues
How Great Decisions Get Made: 10 Easy Steps for Reaching Agreement on Even the Toughest Issues
ISBN: 0814407935
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 112
Pages: 112
Authors: Don Maruska
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- How Great Decisions Get Made - 10 Easy Steps for Reaching Agreement on even the Toughest Issues
- Foreword
- Introduction
- A Better Way to Work as a Team
- Ten Easy Steps for Reaching Agreements Together
- The Numbers Reveal Huge Opportunities
- On Your Way to a World of Possibilities
- Part 1: Making Great Decisions
- Part 2: Ten Easy Steps for Reaching Agreement
- Step 1: Enlist Everyone: Invite Hidden as Well as Visible Talent and Avoid Creating Enemies
- Step 1 in Action
- The Keys to Step 1
- Putting Step 1 into Practice
- Step 2: Discover Shared Hopes: Multiply Your Prospects for Success
- Step 2 in Action
- The Keys to Step 2
- Putting Step 2 into Practice
- Step 3: Uncover the Real Issues: Listen to Thoughts and Feelings
- Step 3 in Action
- The Keys to Step 3
- Putting Step 3 into Practice
- Step 4: Identify all Options: See the Whole Tree before You Go Out on a Limb
- Step 4 in Action
- The Keys to Step 4
- Putting Step 4 into Practice
- Step 5: Gather the Right Information: Look Through the Lens of Your Hopes
- Step 5 in Action
- The Keys to Step 5
- Putting Step 5 into Practice
- Step 6: Get Everything on the Table: 100 Percent Information, Zero Percent Debate
- Step 6 in Action
- The Keys to Step 6
- Putting Step 6 into Practice
- Step 7: Write Down Choices that Support Shared Hopes: Take the Guesswork Out of Decisions
- Step 7 in Action
- A Great Decision Solution
- The Keys to Step 7
- Putting Step 7 into Practice
- Step 8: Map the Solutions: See Clear Results
- Step 8 in Action
- The Keys to Step 8
- Putting Step 8 into Practice
- Step 9: Look Ahead: Be Prepared with Alternatives
- Step 9 in Action
- The Keys to Step 9
- Putting Step 9 into Practice
- Step 10: Stay Charged Up: Celebrate Results and Renew Your Hopes
- Step 10 in Action
- The Keys to Step 10
- Putting Step 10 into Practice
- Part 3: Six Strategies for Overcoming Obstacles
- Strategy 1: Don t Have Time? Try the 30-Minute Miracle
- One Half Hour, One Whole Solution
- Let Miracles Happen for You
- Strategy 2: Not in Charge? Employ Persuasive Techniques
- Three Powerful Techniques
- Strategy 3: No Guide? Follow the Self-Directed Process
- The Keys to Guiding the Process
- Choosing a Facilitator
- Building Facilitating Skills Within Your Organization: See One, Do One, Teach One
- Understanding the Art as Well as the Science
- The Right Frame of Mind
- Strategy 4: Very Large Group? Solve Problems the Way You Play the Accordion
- Making Decisions with Large Groups
- Overcoming Doubts and Fears
- Strategy 5: Can t Get Everyone Together? Be an E-Team
- Selecting the Right Tool for Each Step
- Keeping the Tools From Supplanting the Process
- Strategy 6: Stuck? Dissolve Old Differences and Build Trust
- Disrupting Negative Patterns
- Experience New Possibilities
- Take Action to Build Trust
- Epilogue: Be an Agent of Hope in a Fearful World
- Pursue Your Hopes in Even the Darkest Moments
- Turn Merchants of Fear into Agents of Hope
- Personal Principles
- Be Wise as a Serpent and Innocent as a Dove
- Appendix A: The Ten-Step Improvement Checklist
- Comparing Your Assessment with Others
- Targeting Your Improvements and Tracking Your Results
- Bibliography
- STIMULATING CREATIVITY
- FACILITATING GROUPS
- PROVIDING LEADERSHIP
- EXPLORING SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS OF DECISION MAKING
- Index
- Index_B
- Index_C
- Index_D
- Index_E
- Index_F
- Index_G
- Index_H
- Index_I
- Index_L
- Index_M
- Index_N
- Index_O
- Index_P
- Index_Q
- Index_R
- Index_S
- Index_T
- Index_V
- Index_W
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Tough Issues
- List of Sidebars
How Great Decisions Get Made: 10 Easy Steps for Reaching Agreement on Even the Toughest Issues
ISBN: 0814407935
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 112
Pages: 112
Authors: Don Maruska