The Gradients of Agreement Scale was developed in 1987 by

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Duane Berger Duane may refer to: * Duane (given name) * Duane (surname) * Duane, New York, a US town * the title character of ''Duane Hopwood'', a 2005 film featured in the Sundance Film Festival * Duane Adelier, a main character of ''Unsounded'', a 2012 fanta ...

, and the staff of

Community At Work A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, tow ...

. It enables members of a group to express their support for a proposal in degrees, along a continuum. Using this tool, group members are no longer trapped into expressing support in terms of "yes" and "no." The book "The

Facilitator A facilitator is a person who helps a group of people to work together better, understand their common objectives, and plan how to achieve these objectives, during meetings or discussions. In doing so, the facilitator remains "neutral", meaning t ...

's Guide to Participatory

Decision-Making In psychology, decision-making (also spelled decision making and decisionmaking) is regarded as the Cognition, cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible alternative options. It could be ...

" has been translated into Spanish, French, Russian, Mandarin, Arabic and Swahili, and it has been used in organizations large and small throughout the world.

Links

Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making

Team Decision Making: The Gradients of Agreement

Literature

* Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, 3rd Edition. Sam Kaner. , 432 pages, June 2014, Jossey-Bass Meetings Group processes {{social-psych-stub