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Decision-Making Procedures

Contents 1 First Report (Class #5) 1.1 The Self-Authorized Agenda 1.2 Polling/ Majority-Minority Voting 2 Second Reports

First Report (Class #5)

Decision Making Procedure (By the Fire Balls)

The Self-Authorized Agenda

Dan The Self-Authorized Agenda- (Decision by One)

In last week’s class during the first fishbowl, there was an example of The Self Authorized Agenda almost instantly. The group began to talk and Steph interjected with “Lets do a round of introductions”. This is a clear example or a decision by one, although the procedure may often be overlooked in this case because it was the teacher. The group then discussed the their interpretations of the definition of the word “gist”. It wasn’t long before the decision by one procedure came up again, with a student commenting, “Is everyone clear what gist is? I think it is…” and going on to state in detail what he interpreted the word to mean. This certainly isn’t an out of the ordinary comment, and chances are that the student wasn’t even aware of this self-authorized agenda decision-making procedure. Yet another example from the first fishbowl was the transition from one question to the next on the groups sheet. After a moment of silence a member of the fishbowl commented, “why don’t we move on to the next question?” and proceeded to read it. This is clearly a decision made by one that no one in the group objected to. In the second fishbowl there was also a couple examples of the self authorized agenda, but not as many as the first session. The most noticeable of which came again in the introductions. A student started the conversation with “Oh, names again, I am…” which is actually the very example given in the article to show a Self-Authorized Agenda decision making procedure.

Polling/ Majority-Minority Voting

Angela Polling/ Majority-Minority Voting

During the first fishbowl activity several decisions were made through polling. Matt S. posed a question to the group and said if everyone agrees please raise their hands. This is an example of the kind of decisions that are made through polling. Majority and Minority voting are similar to that of polling and "does anyone object" During the second fishbowl activity I felt that there was a lot of discussion going on but no clear-cut decisions that were made. Francisco made a decision about framing and how different people come from different frames and this is illustrated through people’s blogs about the no mas farc protest. There was a majority decision made between Francisco Gina and Ashley about understanding framing in order to understand the meaning behind ones decision. Another Majority Minority voting example occurred when Gina, Alex, and Ashley discussed people’s responses about not taking the time to look at past blogs from classes Steph has taught. They all agreed that time management was an issue here and helped set up the frame for this certain situation. It was referred to as "trimming the fat" that in order to accomplish things as a leader, one must be able to cut time and do only what is absolutely necessary to leave time for more important tasks.

Second Reports

Steph asks: Do you want these here (with your first report) or in some kind of combination with the other group's reports? Steph^(talk) 10:17, 10 March 2008 (EDT)