Critical Decision Making for Congregations
A Decision Making Process for Congregations
1. Ask the Right Questions
- What is the scope of our inquiry?
- Who are the strategic people?
- How can we accumulate relevant information?
- What questions do we need to answer before we proceed?
- Can we do research? (before/ during / after?)
2. Document, Document, Document
- Get/ use appropriate technology to reflect current realities.
3. Appropriately slow down the process.
- Make sure we have time to make important decisions
- Include information gathering
- Resist deadlines – especially artificial ones
- Don’t allow deadlines to manipulate.
- Review the decision and the decision making process.
- More questions
- Were you heard?
- Are you comfortable?
- Make the process consistent.
- More questions
4. Make my voice appropriately heard.
- Advocate my own position
- Function as facilitator
- Bring together process with questions.