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And how to make them.
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Decisions, decisions. We make them every day. Some more consciously than others.
But we are always making decisions.
Why then do we make such poor team decisions?
They are different from individual decisions and we usually mess them up.
Here’s a quick example.
I was recently invited to observe a team meeting of a team we had never worked
with before. They were looking for some suggestions as to how they could be more
effective as a team and asked me to join them to get a feel for their team and the
culture of their practice. I arrived early and waited for the meeting to start because
when you are early, you are on time.
Early on the agenda was a discussion regarding a new initiative that the leader
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to be on board. I had some idea of the direction that the dentist had decided to take
because he had shared a little about it with me before the meeting. He was excited
about the direction he had decided to take and was looking forward to having the
team share his enthusiasm.
To my shock, the dentist introduced the new initiative as follows: “We have been
thinking about implementing a new system in the practice and I wanted to know
what you think about it.” At that point, some basic parameters of the new idea were
shared. Team members immediately began asking probing questions. Several of
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