30 Collective Decidement Projects for Leadership and Management

Project task: Contribute ideas identifying specific strengths and weaknesses in organizational governance.

Project task: Contribute ideas on what strengthens decision-making and what undermines it.

Project task: Contribute ideas identifying stages, situations or parts of the organization where decisions are delayed, distorted or blocked.

Project task: Contribute ideas on the types of decisions where delay causes the greatest harm.

Project task: Contribute ideas on decisions based on too narrow an information base or insufficient examination of the issue.

Project task: Contribute ideas on the factors that support or hinder internal communication.

Project task: Contribute ideas identifying where information fails to reach the right people or arrives too late.

Project task: Contribute ideas identifying processes or parts of the organization where information becomes unreliable, unclear or contradictory.

Project task: Contribute ideas on what creates value in meetings and what merely consumes time and attention.

Project task: Contribute ideas on eliminating excessive approval and coordination steps without compromising quality.

Project task: Contribute ideas identifying clear, effective boundaries of responsibility as well as problematic ones.

Project task: Contribute ideas on areas where people or teams duplicate one another's work.

Project task: Contribute ideas identifying situations where it is unclear who is accountable for what.

Project task: Contribute ideas on defining responsibilities and points of handover more precisely.

Project task: Contribute ideas on habits, procedures or organizational models that cause the greatest losses of time, money or energy.

Project task: Contribute ideas on specific situations where leaders’ decisions or behavior contradict the values and agreements the organization publicly states.

Project task: Contribute ideas on situations where employees receive misaligned priorities, expectations, or operating rules from different leaders.

Project task: Contribute ideas on decision-making and explanation practices that increase or reduce trust in leadership.

Project task: Contribute ideas on topics, channels, and organizational barriers that prevent important employee knowledge or warnings from reaching decision-makers.

Project task: Contribute ideas on leadership responses and organizational practices that help people raise problems, doubts, and weak signals safely.

Project task: Contribute ideas on decisions whose implementation ownership remains unclear or becomes dispersed across several people after leadership discussion.

Project task: Contribute ideas on questions and circumstances where information from separate areas fails to come together into a shared understanding of the organization’s position.

Project task: Contribute ideas on leadership-agenda topics where the attention given does not match their importance, urgency, or organizational impact.

Project task: Contribute ideas on situations where it is unclear whether an issue should be resolved by a team or escalated to the leadership team or another level of accountability.

Project task: Contribute ideas on clear agreements, monitoring, and feedback that would help the leadership team implement shared decisions consistently without excessive control.

Project task: Contribute ideas on issues where functional or departmental interests override an organization-wide perspective.

Project task: Contribute ideas on significant differences in perspective or interest that remain unspoken and later obstruct decisions or their implementation.

Project task: Contribute ideas on bringing leadership-team members’ experience and expertise to shared decisions beyond the boundaries of their direct responsibilities.

Project task: Contribute ideas on governance habits that worked at an earlier stage but become limiting as the organization grows larger or more complex.

Project task: Contribute ideas on the leadership team’s collective capabilities whose development would most improve the quality of its decisions and joint work.