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Decision-making methods help groups make decisions. There are different decision-making methods – but none of them fell from the sky. Think for example, about parliamentary procedures. They are human-made, abstract concepts! All decision-making methods are imperfect, and each of them comes with implications, pros, and cons. The good news is that we have a choice…

The sociocratic meeting format

Sep 13, 2019

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Ted Rau

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The sociocratic meeting format featured on Sociocracy For All streamlines meetings into three distinct phases: opening for readiness, content for agenda handling, and closing for evaluations. This method enhances meeting efficiency and decision-making.

Want less authoritarian structures? Not without communication skills!

Sep 13, 2019

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Ted Rau

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There are two kinds of people I interact with: those who are convinced that better organizations make better people. And those who are convinced that better people make better organizations. The answer is probably — as usual — somewhere in the realm of both-and.

3 tools from sociocracy for better decision making

Sep 13, 2019

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Ted Rau

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Many organizations are intrigued by the idea of self-management because they hope to have better decision making while creating a power-with culture and structure. Sociocracy is one of the central governance methods to achieve exactly that. However, it can be intimidating to implement those methods – it’s a lot at once! You’ll have to do…

Keeping meetings short

Sep 13, 2019

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Ted Rau

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Long meetings are a pain. Let’s make them shorter. Here are the tools that sociocracy has to offer.

To decide or not to decide?

Sep 13, 2019

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Ted Rau

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3 decisions every young organization will make. They will happen either way, either consciously with a good and inclusive system, or unconsciously with old biases kicking in. Which would you rather do?