[Cafe] Fwd: Consensus Decision making support ?

[Alan Dawson]

As part of my job at hallam I forwarded this information through to them ..  it
can't do any harm to get some thoughts ( can it ? ) ?

----- Forwarded message from "Dawson, Alan Edward" <A.E.Dawson at shu.ac.uk> -----
    Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:52:00 +0100
    From: "Dawson, Alan Edward" <A.E.Dawson at shu.ac.uk>
Reply-To: "Dawson, Alan Edward" <A.E.Dawson at shu.ac.uk>
 Subject: Consensus Decision making support ?
      To: pradsa at googlegroups.com

Hi,

I volunteer in a weekly community workshop providing technical support for PC's.
 ( it generally involves running / installing AV software, antispyware software
blah ).

The project was recently awarded the princely sum of £5K ( whoa! ).  Amongst the
project workers we have a degree of agreement on what we should spend the money
on  ( rent, electricity.. ), and also a degree of difference ( laptops each,
publicity .. ).

I remember some of the parts of the recent decision making workshop, but could
anybody recommend a good consensus building, decision making strategies we can
use that will make sure that we, at least, are  convinced we made the correct
choices.

Thanks in advance
-- 
Alan Dawson
"If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough 
 - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. "

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