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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.
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.
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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