The Advice Process allows organizations to balance speed and quality of decisions. Use it to create more engaged and effective workers.

1. @MichaelSahota
Advice Process for Effective
Organizational Decision-Making

2. Michael Sahota
~20 Years IT
~15 Years Agile
STRATEGIC
PLAY®
!
!
Toronto Canada
~5 Years Culture
& Leadership

3. @MichaelSahota
How Do We Make Decisions?

4. 1 10
FEAR
Centralized Distributed

5. 1 10
FEARPredict &
Control Emergent

6. Decision-Making is the
Genetic Code
for Control

7. Consensus
“A camel is a horse
designed by a
committee.”
- Sir Alec Issigonis

8. The Boss Decides

9. @MichaelSahota
Advice Process

10. Decisions = Power
Why?
»Better Decisions!
»Engaged People
»On the Job
Education

12. “Any person can make any
decision after seeking
advice from:
1) Everyone who will be
meaningfully affected, and
2) People with expertise in
the matter.”
http://www.reinventingorganizationswiki.com/Decision_Making

13. “The most amazing and rewarding
experience with Teal so far has been
taking on an initiative of my own and
implementing the advice process.”
- Carla Tancredi @Fitzii
https://blog.fitzii.com/2015/10/07/the-good-bad-amazing-in-six-months-of-self-management/

14. How to Give Away
Power.
Who is the best
person to make
this decision?
What is their:
Knowledge of
details? Context?
Experience making
decisions?

15. Advice Cards

16. Decision Poker
Boss: “You
can handle it.
I don’t need
to be
involved.”
Worker: “I
am partly
familiar with
this. I want
your
expertise.”
“Agreed.”“Agreed.”

17. Core Protocols - Decider
Group
Decision
»Progress
»Consent

18. Team Decisions - Decider
Hand Sign Fingers Agreement?
5 I am all in. I completely agree
4 I like this idea, sounds good.
3 I will support the idea.
2
I have some concerns, but I’ll go
along and try it
1
I have serious reservations with
this idea: question or alternative.
0
I am an absolute NO.
(Exceptional, rare use)
“I Propose …”

19. @MichaelSahota
Decision-Making Models

20. How to Decide?

21. Lean A3 Process

22. Delegation Poker

23. Leader-Leader
Use “I INTEND to …”
Develop:
»Competence
»Context

24. @MichaelSahota
Further Reading

25. Leader-Leader
Really great source
for understanding
complexity of
shifting (decision-
making) culture.
See Video

26. How I Can Help
1. Certified Agile Leadership (CAL)
Training @ Scrum Alliance
2. 1:1 Coaching & Mentoring (Skype)
3. 1/2 day Executive Briefing
4. Training & Coaching

27. The Expert in
Agile Culture
to
Help You Grow Your
Organization
Call me.
If you want …

28. “We thought we were hiring Michael to teach our staff how to 'do agile' but he
taught us so much more than that.
We started with an intense but stunningly effective Temenos session for the
management team that was crucial to building the trust and connection we
needed to truly function as a team.
He facilitated a series of organizational development workshops that helped us
understand and build towards a cultural and organizational context where
agility can thrive and be sustained.
Using a dynamic and highly engaging 'teach by modeling' style throughout,
Michael helped us examine our team's values, mission and ambitions, adjust
our structure and move us towards an empowered model of decision-making.
When we finally rolled out Scrum and Kanban training, we were well positioned
to support successful adoption.
Michael is a master facilitator who applied expertise, experience, compassion
and courage to navigate complex problems with us and put us on the
path to transformation.”
- Soo Kim, Senior Director, Digital Operations, CBC

29. Contact Michael
Michael Sahota
Phone: 416.999.3297
Email: michael.sahota@agilitrix.com
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