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Consensus Building

TTool · Consensus Building

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The room is split. You're about to call a vote and declare the majority view "consensus." Half the team will leave uncommitted.

Consensus building is a set of techniques for reaching agreements that all participants can accept and support, even if it's not their first preference. You explore interests, generate options, and work through objections until a decision everyone can live with emerges.

A two-branch decision layout splitting an objection into STRUCTURAL / VETO ("Illegal, unfunded, impossible") versus PREFERENTIAL / NOT A VETO ("a different option the objector preferred"), above HEAR and FRAME steps, headed "Consensus is the absence of a veto - not the presence of unanimity."
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