Title: Team Decision Making
Headings: Team Decision Making
Team Decision Making
Establishing a Plan
Avoiding the Pitfalls
Decision Making Options
Key Points

Content: When you involve a group of people in a decision, you are likely to get even more opinions and ideas than expected – which is both a good and a bad thing. It is great to have access to so many ideas and inputs, but the presence of that many opinions can cause the decision making process to drag on and on. Even if you have plenty of time to make the choice, you still want to keep things moving at a reasonable pace so you can move your team on to other matters. Therefore, you are going to have to do a nice job of balancing the supply of ideas and information with a timeline in order to stay on track. The other downfall of team decision making is often the lack of a clear hierarchy within the process. Sure, you are going to be at the top as the owner or manager, but how is the rest of the team organized? If there is no structure among the rest of the group, you may find that you have a bunch of individuals coming to you with various ideas and opinions – leading to confusion and chaos. In order to be successful with the process, you need to make sure that there is plenty of structure in the group to give direction to all of the ideas being offered up. Decision Making Options
Now that you have picked out a team and you understand some of the mistakes that you need to avoid, it will finally be time to work toward making this tough choice. To do so, you can implement one of several different decision making models.