Transcript Consensus Building Process for Reaching Decisions

CONSENSUS BUILDING PROCESS FOR
REACHING DECISIONS
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Definitions used to define the term for the MN PBIS State Leadership Team
• Webster:
• General agreement
• Group solidarity of belief or sentiment
• Latin Word: “feel together”
• “Seek agreement of most participants, but also the resolution of mitigation of
minority objections.
• It is the process of getting to the agreements….”
COMMON MISTAKES IN BUILDING CONSENSUS
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We try to get it alone, rather than building a guiding coalition
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We use a forum that is ill-suited to the dialogue that is typically necessary for
consensus
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We pool opinions rather than build shared knowledge
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We feel need consensus on each, specific detail of implementation
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We set unrealistic standard consensus and invest to much energy in resisters
CONTINUUM OF CONSENSUS
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ALL can embrace
ALL can endorse
ALL can live with
ALL can agree not to sabotage
Majority rules
CONSENSUS
• We have arrived at consensus when all points of view
have been heard, and the will of the group is evident - even to those who may oppose it.
IN ATTEMPTING TO BUILD CONSENSUS…..
 Did we build shared knowledge regarding best practice?
 Did we honestly assess our current reality?
 Did we ensure all points of view were heard?
 Was the will of the group evident even to those who may opposed it?
 IF THE ANSWER TO EACH OF THE ABOVE IS YES, GO FOR IT!!!!
FOR MORE RESOURCES
“How to reach a consensus”
http://wikihow.com/Reach-a-Consensus