Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 28, 2025

one person decides, group consensus, or vote) to avoid frustration and confusion. Clarify what kind of meeting youre having Be clear whether its an informational meeting or a decision-making/problem-solving sessiondont mix the two. Clarify who owns the decision Clearly state how the decision will be made (e.g., And how will we know?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 16, 2023

A team makes the decision through consensus. Consensus is often misunderstood. Consensus decision-making means that the group continues discussion until everyone can live with a decision. Consensus decision-making can take more time and often increases everyone’s ownership of the final decision.

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Sales Wolf Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Leaders understand the line and balance between consensus and productive conflict to enhance decision-making and foster innovation in leadership teams.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 11, 2019

Dialog leads to consensus. A consensus is different than a compromise. In a consensus, all parties’ concerns have been addressed to the degree that they no longer stand in the way. and listening carefully to the other and to your own feelings, you will know when you’re close to a consensus.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 8, 2022

GUEST POST from Greg Satell “I hate consensus,” legendary Silicon Valley coach Bill Campbell used to growl. The problem, as the authors explain in the book, Trillion Dollar Coach, wasn’t that he didn’t want people to get along, but that an easy consensus often leads to groupthink and inferior decisions.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 11, 2015

Some people believe that in a collaborative environment, consensus is the best. Pushing for consensus when it’s not needed actually makes collaboration more difficult. → Read More: Situational Team Decision-Making: Collaboration Does Not Require Consensus. There are six ways teams can make decisions.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 16, 2014

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Consensus decision-making is an obstacle to success when groups are large, and issues are complicated. Forget consensus; aim for commitment when making decisions. Requiring 100% agreement unnecessarily complicates decisions.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” ” Martin Luther King, Jr. Can you hear me now?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 8, 2017

. “I need to make this decision, but I would love your input” or “We’re going to decide by consensus” or “After 30 minutes of discussion, we’re going to take a vote.” ” Of course, the most important part of this approach is to make a plan and stick to it.

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Ineffective teams don’t know how to make consensus decisions. Margaret Thatcher complained of consensus: “To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs,… Continue reading → Decisions Teams Communication Leadership Development organizational success' Can we please make a decision and move on?

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Leading in Context

APRIL 3, 2024

While sometimes people disagree about implementation, there is a strong consensus among scholars and research organizations that today’s leadership requires broad, high level, inclusive thinking. Expectations of “good leadership” are increasing and leaders and organizations are scrambling to keep up.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

And inclusion can be conflated with consensus.” John Baird and John Baird and Ed Sullivan on what could derail you on what could derail you: “It is crucial for leaders to be very clear about what their values mean in practice. Transparency can be conflated with having no privacy. Honesty can be conflated with oversharing.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

Its characteristics are slow, consensus-oriented decision making, comfort, ambiguity, casualness, confidence, and lack of aggressive behavior in general. When an organization has been working well for a while, it is not uncommon to see the leadership begin to nurture a retirement-home culture. Clogged arteries.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This isn’t just about consensus—it’s about choosing behaviors that will influence your culture and outcomes. Step 3: Align on Two Priority Habits Now, narrow it down. As a team, choose two core habits that will have the greatest impact on driving success for the initiative.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JANUARY 26, 2022

Learn about the consensus-based decision-making style and the situations when it’s most appropriate. The fourth style of decision-making is consensus-based decision-making. This is when decisions are reached with a cross-functional team. People from different departments are having their input, and buy-in is essential.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2023

There are three common decision owners at work: a single person, a team via vote, or a team consensus. Using consensus? If you aren’t clear about who owns a decision, here are phrases to help clarify the owner and how everyone can best participate: “I’m unclear how this decision will be made. Are we voting?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2021

We need the right balance between authority vs. autonomy, consensus vs. direct decision-making, and friendly vs. firm. Whether you’re new to management or a veteran leader, this webinar will give you the tools you need to lead spectacularly.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 8, 2021

Unfortunately, it’s too easy to make false assumptions about the desires of others due to a dangerous judgment error termed the false consensus effect. The false consensus effect is one of over 100 misleading mental patterns that researchers in behavioral economics and cognitive neuroscience call cognitive biases. Survey Says….

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 24, 2013

Author Book Notes Leading Managing Power Taking others higher Teams consensus decision Culture flat organizations Leadership Development Management Organizational Development zero sum games' When managers and front-line employees “pretend-collaborate,” for example, the group that makes the decision has the power.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

” The overwhelming consensus was that it’s harder to receive than to give, and most felt that they give far more than they receive. I recently asked a group of managers, “Is it more difficult for you to give or to receive?” ” and “What percentage of your time is spent giving versus receiving?”

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

While sometimes people disagree about implementation, there is a strong consensus among scholars and research organizations that today's leadership requires broad, high level thinking. Expectations of "good leadership" are increasing and leaders and organizations are scrambling to keep up.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 8, 2012

Building consensus, supporting staff, sharing credit, and leading [.]. Understanding when someone just has a crummy day. Understanding the pressures that other women leaders face. Organization and multitasking. Compassion. Tenderness.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 20, 2014

Build Consensus. Like Bono, it is wise to seek consensus on decisions, especially on issues that are important in the eyes of the people you lead and on decisions they will need to implement. In the case of shy employees, take time to thank them for their great work by paying them a personal visit or sending a handwritten note.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Consensus is the path to average. Rather than resolving conflict, invite it. Lousy leaders and weak organizations pursue peace at all costs. The heat of tension, tests, clarifies, refines, and strengthens teams and ideas. Teams without tensions have weak players. One person runs the show. Everyone else […].

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

We’ve learned that while there are many paths to greatness, in the end, there is a consensus on several must-dos that every leader has to keep in the forefront of their minds (or pinned on their bulletin board, or better yet, both). And what have we learned?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 25, 2024

Usually, this is going to be a vote or consensus. In consensus, everyone can live with a choice, even if it wasn’t their first option. Or do we want to go for consensus?” (And And yes, that’s an example of a quick consensus decision about whether to use a vote or consensus. In a vote, the majority rules.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In other cases, group consensus or majority rule is used to make the decision. Strive to reach consensus. In some situations, the team leader makes the final decision. Or the team leader may empower the team to make the decision on their own. Some basic operating rules related to making decisions include: Fully consider all options.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

They Over-rely on Consensus. Consensus managers seldom survive long in their jobs. The people who work for you perform their best when what you say is consistent and frequent. Do you have a core performance message that you constantly talk about with your employees? They Focus on Being Popular.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 8, 2012

Failure to Decide – If the buck is going to stop with us, then we need the courage to make timely decisions, regardless of consensus or the lack of 100% of the information needed to make them. The key learning here is to fully grasp the concept of “opportunity cost” – the cost of NOT doing something in favor of something else.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2017

That phenomenon, first described by Jerry B Harvey in his article ‘The Abilene Paradox’, highlighted his views on consensus inertia. Ensure your team consensus is real, rather than imagined, by regularly reflecting on the values that underpin your declared purpose. So what is that profound issue, that killer component? What to do now?

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In addition to the right processes, leaders from the top down need to embrace the importance of conversation and be patient to develop a consensus on issues that are important to employees at large.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Reaching a consensus. While it’s important to encourage and maintain an open exchange of ideas, leaders must ensure that the group moves toward a consensus solution. Endless discussion is almost never a solution. By the end of Washington’s meeting, a new, third option had taken shape with unanimous consent.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 6, 2014

Leadership Learning Personal Development 12 Angry Men consensus team development' Typically in this space and time I recommend a traditional learning resource to you – a book, teleseminar, workshop or perhaps a website. Today I am going to recommend a movie and give you a few thoughts about how to watch it for more […].

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They suppress dissent and push for consensus. Build consensus” or “Get everyone on the same page” is another way of saying, “I’m right, and you need to change your thinking.”. Sometimes collaboration is really an exercise in coercion. Bosses try to be compelling, not curious. They ask leading and self-affirming questions.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

On the most fundamental level, leaders must bring divergent groups together and forge a consensus on a path forward. The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility : Thriving Organizations & Great Results by Marilyn Gist PhD. But what makes that possible?

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 27, 2024

Pattern breaking is a non-consensus opportunity that forces a choice in the mind of the individual and not a comparison. If you act too slowly, you’ve got what is a conventional idea, embraced only after it became obvious to many others—leaving your idea to compete against a crowded field.

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