Coaching practices for How to Develop Team Decision Making

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• I tend to decide on my own and then use the meeting just to announce it
• Whenever my team decides anything, the loudest or most senior person’s view just takes over the room and everyone quietly falls in line
• My team keeps bringing me bare problems and looking at me to solve them, so I end up doing all the thinking
• The team went with the call I argued against, and now I can feel myself half-sabotaging it just to be proven right
• We leave meetings with everyone seemingly on board, and then half the team quietly fails to follow through

Practices that may help

1. Make decisions through debate, not declaration
   Multipliers use real debate to engage the team’s best thinking before deciding; Diminishers use meetings to announce.
   Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them
2. Use structured team forecasting to aggregate diverse views
   Combine independent estimates from multiple people before the group talks — aggregation beats any single expert.
   Superforecasting
3. Push recommendations up, not problems
   Require reports to bring a recommendation alongside any problem — it’s a delegation practice, not just a time-saver.
   Delegation Levels, Made Practical
4. Disagree and commit on two-way doors
   Voice your disagreement fully, then commit to the group decision and give it a genuine try.
   The Two-Way Door
5. Get genuine commitment, not false consensus
   Teams that avoid conflict often confuse silence for agreement — false consensus is catastrophic for execution.
   The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Made Practical
6. Disagree and commit — reduce the decision drag of endless debate
   Decisions that are made and executed at 80% confidence are almost always better than decisions endlessly refined but never taken.
   Designing a Calm Company (Fried & Hansson)
7. Route decisions to your Discernment genius
   Evaluation decisions drain Wonder and Tenacity geniuses — protect your evaluators and route decisions to them.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
8. Use delegation as a development tool
   Assign Q3 tasks to team members who are ready to stretch — and treat the learning curve as the point.
   The Eisenhower Matrix and Delegation
9. Decentralized command
   Push decisions to the people closest to the problem, bounded by a clear commander’s intent.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
10. Challenge assumptions and invite new thinking
    Actively encourage your team to question old ways and generate new approaches.
    Transformational Leadership, Made Practical

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