You Decide The Solution
You Decide is an interactive strategy to empower and help groups make decisions and solve problems and difficulties.
Grab a large sheet of paper or flip-chart paper and write a list of all of the possible options available to your group. You can work this initiative with any problem or difficulty that your group is going through and you need to solve it.
Assemble your group in front of this list and announce that you would like them to decide what they are going to do next. Explain that each person will soon be able to vote for their favourite option.
Invite each person in your group to mark a tick next to a limited number of options. Distribute one or more pens and ask each person to mark a tick, cross or some sign next to their favourite one, two or three options.
If you invite multiple votes, it is not necessary for all votes to be cast. If an individual really only likes one of the options, then they are entitled to cast just one vote.
Once everyone has cast their votes, tally them and identify the one, two or three most popular options. You are now ready to work the problem or difficulty of the group with the actions that the majority voted for.
Moment of Reflection
- How did you feel having to vote and decide how to solve the problem?
- Do you agree with the decision system? Can you respect or accept it?
- How does this exercise compare to your group’s typical decision-making process?
The topics of this publication: consensus, make decisions, honesty, trust
