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of the two. They can be made by an individual or by a group. It should
always be remembered that no decision-making technique should be used
as an alternative to good judgment and critical thinking. All decision-
making involves individual judgment, and systematic techniques are

merely there to assist those judgments.
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As has been pointed out in this discussion, a number of stages usually exist
to any structured decision-making. The goal is to have a decision-making
process in place that uses all of an organization's assets and, therefore,
makes an executive a true leader for every member of the team and not just

those who are in the inner circle.

Exercise 26: Weighing the Pros and Cons for a Decision

As a group within your organization, or as the organization as a
whole, choose a particular issue or concern for which a decision has
not been made and move through the exercise of weighing the pros
and cons as demonstrated in Figure 15.

Facilitation

A facilitative leader is someone who acts on the premise that a leader does
not do for others what they can do for themselves. Fran Rees

An important key to the effective leadership of a group or organization is

the skill of facilitation. The definition of facilitate is “to make easy” or
“ease a process.” This skill is all about helping a group of people to decide
what results they want to achieve together, how they want to achieve them,
and then helping the group to achieve them. Increasingly rapid change
and socio-economic complexity are forcing organizations to move

increasingly toward staff and member involvement, either formally or
informally. Unfortunately, far too many organizational leaders do not fully
understand group dynamics and therefore lack the skills needed to
transform groups of individuals into effective teams.

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