reminding the group why the meeting is being held and what the group might expect to accomplish takes just a few seconds. Taking this moment is a precondition for a group to be collectively accountable for the success of a meeting.

Summary Meetings are an ideal place to grow a horizontal culture. A variety of practices can help make meetings more collaborative egalitarian, and efficient: 1. Clarify purpose together. At the beginning of a meeting, make sure the purpose is clear. 2. Check in before jumping in. Check-ins help a meeting be more fluid and efficient because

not participate in the actual decision making. When you find out the result, examine how you feel. Repeat. Using Different Types of Agreement Systems We can look at gradients of agreement in horizontal culture. Here are two ways of scrutinizing agreement, one from Sam Kaner in his book Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision Making,29 and the

The term think time was coined by researcher Robert J. Stahl, who documented the

Generative Decision Making

Clarifying Purpose Together

Splitting Up into Subgroups

Self-Determining Attendance The holy grail of horizontal culture might be the ability of employees to self-determine attendance at meetings.

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