Consensus Through Conversation: How to Achieve High-Commitment Decisions

by Larry Dressler

If you are a consultant, manager, meeting facilitator, team leader, community organizer, or simply someone who is involved in lots of group decisions, Consensus Through Conversation was written for you. Consensus Through Conversation is a portable, easy-to-read reference to help you facilitate and participate in consensus decision-making processes. It contains the basic principles and methods for making consensus work, whether in the corporate boardroom or in the community meeting hall. This book was developed as a companion to Consensus Cards, a tool I developed to assist groups in making consensus-based decisions. The book can be used on its own or in conjunction with this tool....Consensus can be a powerful and transformative tool. However, it is by no means a panacea that will transform your organization into a perfectly democratic or otherwise utopian world. Your job as a leader will be to decide when and where to use a consensus-based approach (see Guidelines in section entitled ''Consensus Defined, '' Chapter 1)

Genres: Business

152 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Marilyn]

Easy read, good pointers on facilitating closure.

[Jill · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good Read

[Susanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good book that gives a hands on guideline about how to facilitate the process of consensus decision making for groups.

[Joel Meador · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think a re-organization into lists (even if that is cargo culting) might have helped this, but overall fast read and lots of useful things to think about.