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

Content: Before you get too far into this process, there are a few things that you should think about with regard to the decision in front of you. Specifically, you will want to consider the amount of time that you have to make the decision, how many different people should be involved in the process, and what the goal of the final choice will be. Once you have a clear picture of how this process should work, you will be ready to assemble a decision making team. Avoiding the Pitfalls
Unfortunately, there are a couple of specific pitfalls you are going to need to watch out for while organizing a team decision making process. The first is the issue of time management. 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.