Why Limit Team Decisions to One Vote Per Person?

Multivoting Allows for Greater Nuance

In such a poll, each attendee gets, say, 10 votes — depending on the number of options being evaluated — that they can allocate across potential solutions. They can assign their votes any way they like. For example, they can allocate all 10 votes to one solution or perhaps five votes to a couple solutions they see as viable.

As noted, groups using multivoting outperformed groups using other approaches. This could be the case for several reasons:

• Multivoting requires the attendee to think much harder about all the potential solutions and their relative value.
• Potential solutions are less likely to just fall off the table (unless they receive zero votes, which is uncommon).
• It gives the group a lot more data, and thus discussion can be broader and more inclusive.

Give multivoting a try. It works and is actually fun to do.

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