Group Decision Making
The term group decision making is used when a decision regarding any particular issue or problem, is taken with the cooperation of two or more than two persons with their mutual understanding. In group decision making, there is a leader involved, who judged, summarize and finalize the opinion given by all the members/entities involved in taking the decision and come up on the conclusion.
Process of Group Decision Making
Following are the most ethical and smart approach to make group decision, which are followed by the team leader or facilitator.
1.After finalizing the people which are going to be involved in taking decision, the facilitator take brief introduction of everyone.
2.He provides everyone with a blank page, and allows them to give their suggestions on the topic, but silently. All of them jot down their own decision, what they think is right, in this step.
3.Then he uses a “round robin approach”, in which he collects one opinion from each and every member, but he doesn’t discus those opinions. After collecting, he writes down all of these opinions on a white board or flip chart or whatever available at the spot. After that he asks everyone for their next opinion and jot down that as well. By doing that, he record everyone’s opinions.
4.Then he starts discussing all the ideas step by step. He asks everyone the questions, interpretations and suggestions regarding the idea which is discussed. At this stage its better for him to rate all the ideas, with the mutual understand of all the participants.