We do an affinity convergence on day 3 - grouping similar action plans together - and then ask people to dot vote on those (sometimes people will dot a cluster of actions rather than a single action).
You might find it interesting to give staff and community different colour dots and see what different patterns emerge. That way the president (and the group) will get to see if the staff priorities are similar to the community priorities. After the dot voting we dialogue with the group about what they want to do next - and the right plan for the group generally emerges. The dot voting is used as data but not a decision. Most often the group will decide that whatever actions get championed can move forward. We will finish with a "vote with your feet" where ongoing action teams are formed. We have had interesting results where actions that got lots of "dot votes" did not get any "feet votes" and ended up being put "on hold" until someone had passion for them. I'd love to see a copy of your proposal. Sharon [email protected]
