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Decide Who Does What
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Decide on Who Does What to Create the Future You’ve Agreed Upon.
Meeting leaders and participants often are frustrated about what happens when they come together to get things done.
Instead of leaving with energy and enthusiasm, clear about where they are headed, they often leave confused about future direction. In order to prevent these negative outcomes there are three things to worry about here: the how of the decision, the what, and the who.
The group must know ahead of time how it’s going to decide. There are several options. What’s most important is that the method you choose is clear and understood by all. Identifying what needs to be done can be handled by simple brainstorming. Sometimes leaders
already have an idea of what needs to be done. In other cases, the group will start from scratch. Finally, there is the who. The leader can appoint people to be responsible for each task. Volunteers may be called for, perhaps by creating a signup sheet. A mixed method is to assign someone to lead a task and then have people volunteer to work on the task. Having identified the what and the who, it is critical that you review the decisions reached and make sure that everyone understands what has been decided and who is going to do what. |
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Comments (3)
Dick Axelrod said
at 11:16 am on May 4, 2009
Create a time line for all the actions that need to take place. Ask participants to place the actions they think need to take place on post its, one item per post it. Place the post its at various points on the time line. Have everyone face the map and discuss the proposed actions. Once the actions are agreed to, identify who will be responsible for each action or set of actions.
Jake Jacobs said
at 9:32 am on May 19, 2009
Dick this goes along the same lines as your idea above, only starts a bit earlier in the meeting. The approach is to create an "Idea Wall" that gets added to throughout the meeting. Thoughts, reflections, Action Ideas and the like find their way up there on post it notes. As it gets to be time for action planning and decision making about who does what the group then "looks to the wall." They have a wealth of ideas about what to do and aren't faced with the all too familiar challenge of staring at a blank sheet of paper and the time crunch of figuring out what to do given the overwhelming amount of information they have processed throughout the entire meeting.
Jake Jacobs said
at 9:34 am on May 19, 2009
Another favorite of mine, and of any group I've ever used this with, is to do what we call "A Sabotage Brainstorm." The question: What are all the things we can do to really screw up the work coming out of this meeting? There's something about the human psyche I think that has a mischievous side to it and it's just as important (like in good strategy) to decide what not to do as it is to decide what to do (and who does it). The last five minutes of the brainstorm we give the instructions: Now everything you put up in the next five minutes can't be something that you have already done! After a few big laughs the group gets back to work and has a long list of things people DON"T want to be doing going forward.
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