ConsensusPollListener
Consensus Poll Facilitator
Anyone can be a Consensus Poll Facilitator (more than one per consensus poll is fine, and even encouraged).
A consensus poll facilitator helps participants come to agreement by helping them articulate their concerns more clearly, either by directly editing the document, or in a discussion section. Specifically ...
What does a facilitator do with the NotYets?
- Actively listens to the concerns of the participant.
- Articulates the issues of the participants in a clear way.
- Helps participants in changing the document, so that it coincides with their viewpoints (see EfficientlyExpressedSuggestions ).
- If needed, the facilitator edits the document in a way that takes into account multiple people's concerns and then contacts those people to ask them if the document now satisfies their issues.
What does a facilitator do with the Yesses?
- If we're having problems coming to an agreement, encourage the YES status folks to say more about their reasoning and their process of coming to YES .
- Encourages participants to become facilitators.
- Guides and helps the participants who are willing to facilitate.