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Ensuring diverse perspectives shape decisions
Inclusion is not merely about participation but about influence. Diverse perspectives must actually shape decisions. Examine how decisions actually get made. Who has voice in significant choices? Whose perspectives are taken seriously versus tolerated and then ignored? Are there patterns in whose input shapes outcomes? Make… An ongoing team scaffold (decision practice), run at significant decisions, not as a one-off session.
Practical
- Time
- 5-90 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, perspective-taking, dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (At significant decisions)
Origin & where it lives
Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI] (IDG for Teams handbook — team scaffold) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)
Instructions: open online
In this directory via Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Team leader role (Jordan): Examine whether diverse perspectives actually shape decisions or merely create appearance of consultation. Make decision processes transparent. Hold yourself accountable.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25