Together We Decide: An Essential Guide For Making Good Group Decisions

Does your group need help making good decisions?
Whether your organization is large or small, public or private, simple or complex, making good group decisions is critical. Bad meetings and fumbled processes waste time and cost money.
With practical tips, timeless principles, and pitch-perfect stories in this definitive book, Craig Freshley shares the essentials that groups of all sizes need to make good decisions with lasting benefits. This friendly, practical, and authoritative guide from a veteran facilitator is a must-have for groups or individuals who want to work on consensus and collaborative decision-making skills.
Non-profit leaders, board members, and senior staff—where there's often a high expectation of collaboration—and corporate leaders with an inclusive mindset, will find this hook especially valuable.

Topics include:

• Efficient and productive meetings
• Attitudes that help and hinder group productivity
• Group decision making steps, from idea to decision to action
• The role of group culture
• How to listen well and speak with purpose
• Conflict prevention, management, and resolution
• Facilitative leadership
• When to apply which type of decision-making method
• Meeting facilitation theory and techniques

Freshley’s message is especially pertinent to today’s world. It’s through collaboration, not competition, that groups of the future will create, innovate, and thrive. Group collaboration is a skill that can be successfully learned and practiced—Freshley shows groups how.
A good read from cover to cover. A great reference, fully indexed. A perfect gift for any collaborative leader.