TEWT.

The Army has a practice called a TEWT: Tactical Exercise Without Troops.

Participants use a sand table or computer model or paper and pen to simulate decision making - friendly and enemy - in a battle. The TEWT allows everyone to see what is potentially in everyone else’s mind, including the enemy. Participants show Friendly Course of Action, Enemy Courses of Action, and the likely responses to each.

The Five Steps to Good Decision Making - or any decision making process - is like a TEWT in that it makes decision making visible - if only to the decision maker. By doing so it does two things:

Invites a better course of action.

Shows faith in the followers.