Systemic Consensing
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Deep Consensing
Cycle:
- Describe the problem
- Prepare
- Ask the question of authority
- Define boundaries
- Describe passive solution
- Cycle
- Collect wishes
- Find proposals
- good enough for now and safe enough try
- more than one
- status quo is included
- Decide
- Vote on proposals
- Rank the proposals by resistance voting
- Clarify resistance
- Check starting energy (Do people want to take responsibility?)
- Either execute or start the cycle again
- Execute
- Celebrate
- Reflect on the process
- Execute
- Validate Impact
Resistance voting : Scale from 0 (no resistance) to 10 (highest resistance)
Quick Consent
One Proposal to vote on.
Possible type of votes are:
- I like the idea (No objections)
- Ok, for me (No objections)
- I have reasonable concern (Objection)
- And here they are
- And this is my idea how to integrate my needs into the proposal
Decision by one person or group
- Write down the "task"
- why the decision needs to be made
- boundaries a decider can move inside
- the needed skills.
- Suggest candidates
- Use consent to decide, who will be the decider
- Decider talks to people to find out their needs and ideas.
- Decider decides
- Decider tells everybody how, and why he/her decided that way
- Decider asks for forgiveness.
- People appreciate the hard decision, the decider had to make
- People express their gratitude
Credits: Method developed by Erich Visotschnig and Siegfried Schrotta and presented by it-agile