Group Design Approaches

Group Design has no standard.

Each group's approach to creating goals and actions follows a unique path.

The raw materials.

Stakeholders and interests
Data and evidence
Risks and mitigations
Roles and authority
Assumptions and uncertainties
Context and signals
Actions and alignment
Resources and constraints
Goals and outcomes
...

Packaged.

Many consultants embed interviews, analyses and facilitated workshops within their service methodology.

Assemble-to-order.

Many facilitators assemble a custom, one-time approach to Group Design for each group, from the tools and techniques in their personal collection.

Tacit defaults.

Everyone else is left to develop their private, undefined approach to Group Design unconsciously, through participation, observation, trial and error.  

No two are alike.

Whichever approach is used, each Group Design follows a unique path.

This has been assumed as acceptable because each shared-response situation is unique.

Random walks.

Every group goal and action design activity is entirely dependent on which leader, consultant, or facilitator guides it.

The Group Design paradox.

What do you do when the quality of a decision is based on the quality of the process used to design it - but there is no process? 
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