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Self-Management 14:31 20 January 2026

Give your Team the Power with These Decision-Making Techniques

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About this video

Decision-making doesn't need to be so frustrating. If you feel like every decision in your business comes back to you, you’re not alone.

Many founders want their teams to take more ownership — but instead, they become the decision-making bottleneck. People wait, accountability feels blurry, and “group decisions” start to sound slow, messy, or risky.

In this video, I break down practical decision-making techniques that help you give your team real decision power — without losing control or creating chaos.

Included;

✅ Benefits of distributing decision-making power

✅ 2 x Decision-making techniques

✅ Tips & Consideration for more effective decision-making

RESOURCES MENTIONED 🔗

Sociocracy

https://www.sociocracyforall.org/

Holacracy

https://www.holacracy.org/

Group Decision-Making Research Randy Hirokawa

https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/communication-and-group-decision-making/book5821

WATCH NEXT 🍿

https://youtu.be/cuxzLAa9TFE?si=xR5NC1N2eltDOXRN

⌚️TIME STAMPS ⌚️

0:00 Intro

0:57 The Benefits of Distributing Decision-Making

04:00 Decision Rights to Role

05:05 Decision Rights to Team

05:54 The Advice Process

07:01 Consent Decision-Making

08:42 Tips & Considerations for Effective Decision-Making

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WHO AM I? 🤓

Hi! - If you're new here, I'm Lizzie, a culture coach based in the UK. I help teams, start-ups and businesses create great places to work through alternative ways of working. Through my videos, my podcast and my blog I share practical ideas about how we can make work better. And share my experience as a founder, business owner and personal-development junkie.

Lizzie Benton
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About the author

Lizzie Benton

Founder & Self-management Specialist

A curious explorer for new ways of working

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