WiSDM for Senior Teams

World-Class Shared Decision Making

WiSDM for Senior Teams program is designed to deliver the skills of making shared decisions to enable courageous, respectful and paradigm-shifting interactions.

The primary business of senior executive groups is to make decisions. But how are those decisions really made? Are they shared decisions arrived at collectively? Or are they often made by one or two individuals?

What's so important about group decisions? The answer is simple: with greater involvement and support from all members of a team, group decisions are more likely to be successful.

Decisions made by individuals often lack the group intelligence and consequently may be of lesser quality. Once organizational power is centred in the hands of individuals, accountability for decisions shifts and the reasoning behind decisions is often largely inside only one person's mind.

One alternative is to make decisions in public, so that:

  1. Reasoning can be tested against the collective mind.
  2. Assumptions about a decision can be made visible and respectfully challenged.
  3. A full exchange between diverse viewpoints can be facilitated.
  4. Accountability for decisions can be shared.
  5. Better decisions are made.

Many senior executive meetings do not consider less palatable views or options or try to uncover assumptions about individual statements or beliefs. In fact, senior executive groups often have a canny way of navigating around issues that may be threatening or embarrassing.

So the work of making shared decisions involves practising new communication skills that enable courageous, respectful and paradigm-shifting interactions.

The program outline for WiSDM for Senior Teams is designed to deliver the skills of making shared decisions to enable courageous, respectful and paradigm-shifting interactions.

 

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For further details or to arrange a confidential interview to discuss how we can help you, please email info@pdconsult.com.au or call 02 4784 3183.

 

The program was very practical and conducive to learning with a good mix of theory and practical exercises. I now have a strategy in place to deal with others. It has been really helpful for perfomance appraisals.

David Johnston -Stockland Property, Management Excellence II