WELCOME to our "exercises" section. What you will find here is the work product of a new wrinkle we've added to the standard three day introductory training used by most of our client organizations to introduce the principles of interest based decision making to employees throughout their organization. Here's what we've been doing since about the fall of 1999:

On the afternoon of day three we ask the question of the participants "name some of the opportunities which exist throughout this organization or back at your own workplace upon which you could apply the principles of decision making we've just spent the past 2 and a half days introducing to you". The participants brainstorm a list which is recorded after the creation of a suitable "flip chart byte" as a title for the topic. The group then does a weighted voting on the topics listed using the following criteria: * is the issue/topic real or an echo of the past? * is the issue/topic something you can do something about or only influence? * is the issue/topic something that if it were resolved would imrove or resolve a number of other issues or topics? Each participant is given an equal number of votes to cast, but before they do we invite advocacy on behalf of any issue/topic. Then the votes are cast. The result winnows the list down to a workable number of 3 to five (depends upon how many facilitators we have) A "work station" is then created for each of the topics, and participants rotate through each of the workstations or as many as time will allow. The results of this drill are contained on the "group mempry" you will find when you click on any one of the topic so idendified as having been sleected.

PLEASE NOTE:
These are drills.
This is a bold and laudible risktaking by these organizations and the participants to be willing to "hang it out" on the web! The affected stakeholders connected with any issue/topic are not all assembled. There is no commitment going into this drill that anything will ever come of this material. Participants are invited to visit this website and use the material found in the group memory on these topics as a "jumpstart" collection of data in the event that the issue/topic should in reality ever come forward in the organization. The group memory is recorded as presented by novice facilitators. We make every effort to return the actual flip charts from which these photos have been made.

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