Team decision-making using consensus or commitment?
Decision-making can make or break a team’s success. While consensus is often seen as the gold standard for team decisions, it can sometimes slow down progress and dilute bold ideas. Instead, focusing on commitment—where every team member is clear on the direction and buys into the decision, even if they initially disagreed—can drive better results.
Reasonable people can buy into a decision that they didn’t initially agree with, as long as they know they were heard and their input was factored into that decision.
To address issues of commitment on a team, you must first identify reasons for a lack of commitment and take these steps.
The Five Behaviors® Team Development
This profile combines the power of Everything DiSC® and The Five Behaviors® to help team members learn key behavioral insights about themselves and their teammates—improving trust and working relationships even further. Learn more about Five Behaviors Team Development »
🙋 Featured FAQ 🙋
Q: What does DiSC® measure?
A: DiSC measures dimensions of your personality. It does not measure intelligence, aptitude, mental health, or values. DiSC profiles describe human behavior in various situations—for example, how you respond to challenges, how you influence others, your preferred pace, and how you respond to rules and procedures. It measures tendencies and preferences, or patterns of behavior, with no judgment regarding value or alignment with a skill set or job classification. DiSC is a tool for dialogue, not diagnosis.
The basis of the DiSC model is a measurement of these two scales:
pace (from fast-paced and outspoken to cautious and reflective)
agreeableness (from questioning and skeptical to accepting and warm)
Where you fall on these two scales places you into one of the four primary DiSC quadrants.
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Once you offer an engaging session, you want to keep that momentum going, but how? Leverage regularly scheduled meetings. You as the facilitator don’t even have to be there. Discussion questions can be asked by a manager or any team member.
These questions can be answered quickly; another meeting can be called to address the issues further if needed. This is a chance to practice what is learned during each Everything DiSC® or Five Behaviors® session. Facilitators might also want to ask the team to come up with questions for each day or week until their next session.
