Activities
These are suggestions to further explore the issues
raised by voluntary matters 3 in group discussions
or training sessions.
You may choose to do the activities with other people
from your organisation or with people
from a range of organisations. Contact your local Volunteer
Bureau or Council for Voluntary Service
to see if there is already a group forum in your area.
If not, set one up!
Watching the All Together Now programme
in a group will raise a number of points, below are
other suggestions to get more out of a group session.
Discuss
As a group discuss this proposition: organisations
that work well are run by benign dictators.
Spend about twenty minutes on this.
For about twenty minutes discuss what you would do
if you put out a policy for consultation and a wide
range of opposing views were expressed.
Try
As a group make a list of all the decision-making
processes you can think of. Then get into small
groups, each group taking one of the processes on the
list and evaluating its advantages and disadvantages.
Then report back to the main group. This should take
about forty-five minutes in all.
On your own, review a decision made in your
organisation recently. Write down the stages
of the decision-making process: how it started, who
was involved, how the options were developed and how
you got to the final decision. Then form a large group
and consider, in hindsight, whether it was a
good decision and whether the decision-making
process was the best one in terms of time taken
and the quality of the decision. Spend about
forty-five minutes on this.
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Where to now?
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- Try doing the scenario
in a group to see how you'd manage the process
of making decisions in a thriving community
group
- Tell us how you got on with the group activities
in the discussion
section
- Check out links and publications in resources
- Check transmission details of the All
Together Now TV
programme or
order the video
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