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Building Support for Decisions: Effective Facilitation

At Big Sky Thinking we've written quite a bit on using data in decisions and how to structure a decision-making process to increase speed and quality. For many decisions, getting the decision-makers to commit to a course of action is just as important as finding the right course of action.

Dan over at Decision Making Methodology Discussion Forum highlights how important effective facilitation can be in building support. I've seen Dan's advice work even when data is abundant; sometimes, cultural and political forces--which have surprising resilience in the face of objective data--can only be managed by effective group facilitation and well-designed change management.

You can read Dan's post here.

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