Slides for my session at Reinventing Organizations 2017 in Sofia .

1. Sociocracy 3.0
Decision Making
Bernhard Bockelbrink @ Reinventing
Organizations 2017
http://sociocracy30.org
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2. Driver
Our manager is very authoritarian and budget-focused, as a
consequence we have short-sighted and ineffective strategies, and
we are unhappy.
We need to help him understand that including us in decisions and giving
us more autonomy will lead to both better long-term results, and us being
more happy.
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3. Proposal Forming
Collect considerations phrased as
questions relating to possible solutions.
• information gathering questions reveal
constraints ("_What is...")
• generative questions reveal
possibilities ("How might we")
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4. Consent Decision Making
A driver is a person’s or a group's motive
for responding to a specific situation.
• a brief description of the situation
(observation)
• a description of what is needed (deficit)
in relation to the situation
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5. Objections and Concerns
An objection is a reason why doing
something stands in the way of (more)
effective response to a driver.
A concern is an opinion that something
might impede a (more) effective response
to a driver.
Objections stop actions or agreements.
Concerns are recorded and processed if
there is time.
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6. Resolve Objections
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7. License
This work by Bernhard Bockelbrink licensed under the Creative
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This work is based on "S3 - A Practical Guide" by Bernhard
Bockelbrink and James Priest, available on http://sociocracy30.org/
guide
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