Title: Pros and Cons of Consensus Decision Making
Headings: 
Consensus Decision-Making Pros and Cons
Consider These Significant Issues Before You Make Consensus Decisions
Group Agrees to Support the Decision
Involved Employees See a Benefits
You Present a Unified Front
Collaborative Spirit of the Team
Agreeing to Bad Decisions
Groupthink Is Real
Compromise Solutions
Business Is Hierarchical
Making the Best Decision

Content: Pros and Cons of Consensus Decision Making
Succeeding at Work Management & Leadership
Consensus Decision-Making Pros and Cons
Consider These Significant Issues Before You Make Consensus Decisions
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By
Suzanne Lucas
Updated September 10, 2019
Consensus decision-making sounds like a way to achieve the best possible outcome from the decisions made at work. If you can bring all team members on board, you’ll have developed a decision that everyone likes, respects, and supports. That’s the theory—but it often falls flat. While all team members “agree” to support the consensus decision, the decision may not, in fact, be the optimal decision for the team or the business. Group Agrees to Support the Decision
Reaching a conclusion that everyone on the team supports is a positive, often effective, team strategy. With 100 percent agreement, you can move forward with confidence, and you don’t have to worry about another employee working to undermine your efforts. Involved Employees See a Benefits
To get everyone to agree, it generally (but not always) means that the decision made will benefit every group within the team or organization. You’re not sacrificing good HR, for example, to make finance happy, or vice versa. You Present a Unified Front
Leadership teams often have to make decisions that employees don’t like or support. That’s part of leadership.