How do you get a group of individuals to think individually yet contribute to a group decision that, in the end, reflects the views of the majority yet has the support of everyone. The answer lies in providing a process which is rigorous, consultative, encouraging of creativity but completely transparent to all participants. This workshop will show how prioritisation reflecting consensus is achieved by converting individual judgments into a cohesive decision. The session is stimulating, interactive and will provide participants with the opportunity to work on and resolve a real workplace-based group decision of importance to all.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:

• Explain the structure of a decision.
• Prioritise criteria and attributes.
• Perform pair-wise judgments.
• Convert these to priorities.
• Check on consistency and sensitivity.
• Declare positions of support, acceptance or recusal
• Use the Analytic Hierarchy Process for simple decisions.
• Apply these techniques to a decision of their own.
  

Course Outline

• What is a Judgment?
• Can we measure intangibles?
• Using a ratio scale
• Making Pair-wise comparisions
• From judgments to prioritisation
• Initial inconsistency and its contribution to creativity
• Reducing ultimate inconsistency
• Sensitivity of results to changes
• From Prioritisatons to Decisions
• Introduction to the Analytic Hierarchy Method
• Distributed Decision-making - granting local autonomy
• Establishing an appropriate decision forum
• Application to a workplace decision
• From Individual Decisions to Group Consensus
• Justification and explanation