ONLINE COURSE

Collaborative Decision-Making with Sociocracy 3.0

Essential Skills for Leaders, Coaches and Teams
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Navigating Complexity in a Rapidly Changing World

In today’s fast-paced world, organizations face numerous challenges in navigating complexity, managing dependencies, and adapting to change. Tackling these demands requires a proven decision-making framework that
  • Leverages collective intelligence
  • Reconciles diverse and sometimes conflicting requirements
  • Supports effective, adaptable decisions tailored to changing organizational needs

The perils of decision-making in modern-day organizations

Are you facing these common challenges?

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  • Differing opinions and conflicting requirements lead to decision paralysis.
  • Disagreements escalate, leading to conflict or disengagement.
  • Meetings frequently run over time without achieving meaningful outcomes.
  • Decisions are often revisited or overturned due to a lack of buy-in.
  • Certain voices dominate meetings, while others remain silent.
  • Attempts to use consent decision-making have fallen short of expectations..

Whether you’re a team leader, collaboration facilitator, or driving organizational change, this course equips you with the knowledge and practical tools to overcome these challenges and revolutionize your organization’s decision-making process.

Unlock the Power of
Collaborative Decision-Making

This comprehensive introductory course combines self-paced e-learning with three interactive 3-hour online workshops.

Discover proven practices for collaboration 

Learn a coherent system to support effective decision-making and foster alignment between stakeholders and  within teams. 

Facilitate impactful meetings with confidence

Gain techniques to lead decision-making meetings with balanced participation and minimal wasted time

Balance speed and inclusivity

 Learn how to make timely, well-thought-out decisions with others, even in complex or high-stakes scenarios.

Harness collective intelligence

Resolve disagreements constructively and tap into the diversity of perspectives and ideas within your organization.

  • Develop agreements that evolve with your organization

  • Learn how to evaluate and evolve agreements to integrate learning and ensure they remain relevant and effective over time
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Topics covered

include:

Resolving Disagreements

Consent Decision-Making

Forming Proposals

Running Effective Meetings

Clarifying the 'Why' for Decisions

Knowing When to Co-Create

A BLENDED PROGRAM

The Learning Experience

ONLINE Workshops

Self-paced e-Course

 What to Expect

  Self-Paced E-Lessons*

To help you prepare and get the most out of the online workshops, you’ll also receive access to a collection of self-paced video and text lessons.
  • Divided into essential and optional parts, allowing you to customize your learning experience based on your needs
  • Essential lessons build a solid foundation for active workshop participation
  • Optional lessons offer opportunities for deeper exploration
You’ll enjoy 12 months of access to the e-course materials so you can revisit and reinforce your learning at your own pace. 
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  Online Workshops

  • Three x 3-hour Zoom sessions
  • A maximum of 12 participants

Through a variety of activities, gain hands-on experience applying S3 patterns for forming proposals and making decisions collaboratively in a small team. You’ll benefit from lots of guided practice, along with time for reflection on learning and opportunities to address questions you may have.
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  What to Expect

This program delivers practical tools and insights to enhance your decision-making effectiveness. However, mastering these patterns is a journey that requires ongoing practice and learning.
  • Rethink old habits and challenge past assumptions
  • Gain confidence in navigating disagreements and facilitating team alignment
  • Integrate S3 principles into your daily work to foster a culture of collaboration
Practicing with colleagues or peers after the course will help you deepen your understanding and fluency in applying these tools.

  Further Your Learning

  At the interface between the habitual and the new, the potential for greater consciousness resides.
To take your skills even further, we recommend enrolling in our Decision-Making Katas. Gain more hands-on experience: This follow-up series offers an additional 9 hours of guided practice in a small-group environment. It’s designed to help you confidently apply S3’s patterns to real-world scenarios.

What past participants say

I attended a workshop on Sociocracy 3.0 and consent decision-making that James held a few months back. Since then I've had absolutely amazing results using the tools I learned from him in various teams. Consent decision-making (hand-gestures and all) have allowed those teams to make quick, well-informed decisions in a way that makes everyone feel included and engaged. I've found the mindset, principles and tools that James teaches to be immensely powerful.

Erik Frisk, Co-founder, Touch&Tell

You provide great value for money and share lots of knowledge that definitely took loooong years to acquire. It is a pleasure to listen to (and learn from) absolute experts in the field. Any question thrown at you comes back with an insightful answer that clearly indicates you have done this million times and have very extensive experience. Last but not least you are just two very nice people :)

Past Participant

It was a great experience. I am very glad that a group of us came from our organisation. It was my first experience in a workshop with other people from abroad and it was great, a lot because of your beautiful facilitation. It is amazing that the contents of the workshop are exactly what we needed and I am sure we will implement a lot from S3. Personally I think that I developed a lot from the workshop.

Mor Gilboa, Executive Director, Israel

You two are great trainers. You live what you talk about, are very authentic and manage to create a wonderful atmosphere. Every exercise, every question has a deeper meaning, stimulates discussions and makes me think. Each participant is given space to share their emotions and thoughts with the group and the interaction is very respectful. Also that you stayed in the meeting after the sessions for further questions and discussions shows how important it is to you to bring S3 to the world.

Lena Odenwald, Scrum Master, Germany

Upcoming Courses

4 - 6 June, 2025

Wed, Thu, Fri  from 09:30 to 12:30 CET
  €740 + VAT

10 - 12 September, 2025

Wed, Thu, Fri from 14:30 to 17:30 CEST
  €740 + VAT
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 If you wish to participate in this course and the fee is beyond your means or the value you place on it, please contact us to explore potential options for you to participate. We strive to ensure that cost is not a barrier for people learning about S3. 

Cancellation, Postponement, or Transferring Your Enrollment

We understand that unexpected changes can sometimes disrupt your plans. For detailed information about our policies on cancellations, postponements, or transferring your place to a friend or colleague, please refer to our Terms and Conditions statement. 

Your Learning Facilitators

Lili David & James Priest

This course is developed and hosted by Lili David and James Priest, co-developers of S3. They are delighted to share with you numerous insights and practical tools that you can start using right away to boost your organization's effectiveness and maximize your ability to deliver value to the people you serve.
Lili and James embody the S3 principles and walk their talk. There are not many people that can achieve this level of engagement from participants that sparks deep conversations and creates change. 
Marcin K.
I'm inspired by the energy that you both bring with your skills, the way they compliment each other and the transparent union in your actions. How much inner development it brings!
Xana P.
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