Decision Jam

1 to 4 hour workshop. Make the right decision, fast, and bring the team with you. Perfect for quick decision making, priority setting, and consensus building. Remote and onsite.
Application Areas
Problem Solution Fit Company Vision & Values Conflict Resolution Blended Working KPI's & Metrics Team Alignment Digital Transformation Focus Project Selection Planning Prioritization Product Management
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A decision Jam works really well when time is short and you need to build understanding and consensus around a set of actions and best options to capture an opportunity, or remediate a project after it’s gotten into difficulty. A decision Jam is a quick way to work through a complex problem. or set of circumstances to figure out what needs to be done - you may not solve the actual problem during the Jam - but you’ll work through the problem enough to understand the actions that need to be undertaken to get it solved. Just like a Decision Sprint or Decision Scrum a Jam is a tightly choreographed set of exercises that help a team work through a problem from a number of different angles, taking feedback and insights from each member of the team to help form solutions that the team can get behind.

How do you make decisions? My way or the highway? With your gut? Going with the flow? Putting it off til the last moment? Burn down the clock so there’s only one course of actions? A GetReal Decision Jam is a better way. We bring your team physically in a room or virtually on a Zoom and over a couple of hours use a structured process gather ideas, make everyone heard, create solutions and decide next steps. We gather information from the team - we make sure everyone speaks and everyone is heard. We focus around a goal. We create, evaluate and filter ideas. We then as a team decide which ideas to progress. You’ve invested in your team. A decision Jam is great way-of-working that gets the most out of them., to tap their expertise and build consensus. We find out how things work, we might look at competing solutions, value creation from both the organization's and customers perspective, and your customers. We discuss where you’re going wrong and where you're going right.

What to expect

Focus
Focus
Looming deadlines force focus The facilitators work at speed to create focus and drive the decision making. We think in terms of stopwatches not calendars.Distractions delay decisions Phones off, diaries cleared. It’s important to remove all distractions from the process
Filter
Filter
Individuals come up with great ideas. (They also come up with lemons). We provide space for individual creative reflection. Teams give the right answers Properly choreographed groups are really good at filtering ideas. They are drawn to good ideas.

Client Results

€20,000
3 hours of focused effort - followed by one day to complete a funding application - resulted in a change management pilot to be funded to the tune of €20,000.
4 weeks
We estimate the 4 man weeks were saved in evaluating 4 competing ideas. Team coalesced around a single programme that would have greatest impact for the organisation.
Case Study

What would you do if your key success metric went to zero? COVID-19 caused the Gallery of Photography’s ‘Visitor numbers’ - the key success metric by which most cultural institutions are judged - to go from 100,000 per year to zero. The Gallery used the GetReal Decision Jam to coalesce around a programme to re-orientate the Gallery around a digital-first initiative. The Decision JAM took 90 minutes, and enabled the gallery to complete a funding application in just one day. The result: new funding for the Gallery to support the digital-first initiative.

Evidence based decision support

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We help you make better decisions

Alistair Hodgett
Alistair Hodgett
US & Ireland
Paul Healy
Paul Healy
US, UK, & Ireland
Paul Geraghty
Paul Geraghty
Remote & Ireland