More Than 50 Ways to Build Team Consensus

This valuable resource provides more than 50 practical, step-by-step activities and strategies for helping groups collaborate to build consensus and accomplish their goals.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xii

About the Author

xiv

Introduction to Building Team Consensus

xvi

Part I. Purposeful Vision

1

(66)

1. Visualizing the Common Direction: Simple Things to Do

5

(20)

1. Hopes and Desires Conversation

6

(3)

2. Snapshots

9

(3)

3. Brainstorming Closure

12

(3)

4. TV Personality in Three Years

15

(4)

5. Common Direction Written Summary

19

(3)

6. Past, Present, and Future Images

22

(3)

2. Creating Visible Documentation: Things That Take Effort

25

(20)

7. Cardstorming

26

(4)

8. Meeting Products Documentation

30

(3)

9. Artifacts

33

(3)

10. Report

36

(3)

11. Wall Decor of Meeting Products

39

(3)

12. Article

42

(3)

3. Illuminating the Total Framework: For the Committed

45

(22)

13. Journey Wall

46

(4)

14. Global Events Conversation

50

(4)

15. Newsletter

54

(3)

16. Organization Principles Workshop

57

(3)

17. Purposeful Vision Chart

60

(4)

18. All the Stakeholders

64

(3)

Part II. Participative Processes

67

(72)

4. Generating Total Participation: Simple Things to Do

72

(23)

19. Creating the Real Question

74

(3)

20. Eventful Happenings

77

(3)

21. Sticker Dots

80

(3)

22. Language

83

(3)

23. TV News Spot

86

(3)

24. Questions Not Dictums

89

(3)

25. Carousel Solutions

92

(3)

5. Organizing the Meeting Focus: Things That Take Effort

95

(20)

26. One Concrete Product

97

(4)

27. Time Flow Picture

101

(3)

28. Meeting Space

104

(4)

29. Materials

108

(3)

30. Meeting Plan Forms

111

(4)

6. Tapping the Group Agreement: For the Committed

115

(24)

31. Guidelines for a Consensus Outcome

117

(2)

32. Workshop Flow

119

(4)

33. Three-to-One Scenarios

123

(4)

34. Cooperative Writing Workshop

127

(3)

35. Mapping the Road to Agreement

130

(3)

36. Agreement: State and Restate

133

(3)

37. Testing for Consensus

136

(3)

Part III. Individual Commitment

139

(52)

7. Eliciting Detailed Assignments: Simple Things to Do

142

(16)

38. Task Volunteers

143

(3)

39. What/Who/When Cards

146

(3)

40. Timelines

149

(3)

41. Attendance

152

(3)

42. Assignment Chart

155

(3)

8. Expanding Personal Recognition: Things That Take Effort

158

(16)

43. Specific Praise

159

(3)

44. Individual Celebrations

162

(3)

45. Training, Coaching, or Project Feedback

165

(3)

46. Use of People's Names

168

(3)

47. Personalized Job Tools

171

(3)

9. Occasioning Individual Accountability and Absolution: For the Committed

174

(17)

48. Short Weekly Meetings

176

(3)

49. "I Am Nervous About" Conversations

179

(3)

50. Implementation Lesson Conversation

182

(3)

51. A Victory Party Before the Victory

185

(3)

52. Symbol of Commitment

188

(3)

Part IV. Collaborative Teams

191

(65)

10. Intensifying Team Identity: Simple Things to Do

195

(20)

53. Team Member List

196

(3)

54. Team Name

199

(3)

55. Team Flag or Symbol

202

(3)

56. Team Motto

205

(3)

57. Team Song

208

(4)

58. Team Rituals or Rites

212

(3)

11. Increasing Supportive Connection: Things That Take Effort

215

(23)

59. Winning Team Story

217

(4)

60. Leadership Rotation

221

(3)

61. Icebreaker Opening Conversation

224

(4)

62. Dyad or Triad Brainstorming

228

(3)

63. Making the Differences Visible

231

(4)

64. Team Victory Celebration

235

(3)

12. Enhancing Group Reflection: For the Committed

238

(18)

65. Processing Partners

239

(2)

66. Content Processing

241

(3)

67. Meeting Processing

244

(3)

68. Teamwork Processing

247

(3)

69. Logs or Journals

250

(3)

70. Career Motivation Conversation

253

(3)

Conclusion

256

(2)

Bibliography

258

(3)

Index

261

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More Than 50 Ways to Build Team Consensus

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