{"id":44,"date":"2014-10-16T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cnob.org\/?p=44"},"modified":"2014-10-19T00:28:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T00:28:34","slug":"critical-decision-making-for-congregations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnob.org\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Critical Decision Making for Congregations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A Decision Making Process for Congregations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1. Ask the Right Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the scope of our inquiry?<\/li>\n<li>Who are the strategic people?<\/li>\n<li>How can we accumulate relevant information?<\/li>\n<li>What questions do we need to answer before we proceed?\n<ul>\n<li>Can we do research? (before\/ during \/ after?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2. Document, Document, Document<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get\/ use appropriate technology to reflect current realities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3.\u00a0<strong>Appropriately slow down the process.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure we have time to make important decisions\n<ul>\n<li>Include information gathering<\/li>\n<li>Resist deadlines \u2013 especially artificial ones<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t allow deadlines to manipulate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Review the decision and the decision making process.\n<ul>\n<li>More questions\n<ul>\n<li>Were you heard?<\/li>\n<li>Are you comfortable?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Make the process consistent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4.\u00a0<strong>Make my voice appropriately heard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advocate my own position<\/li>\n<li>Function as facilitator<\/li>\n<li>Bring together process with questions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Decision Making Process for Congregations 1. 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