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SPEAKING-UP-IN-MEETINGS5 MIN READ

Spot false consensus before it hardens

Identify a false-consensus cue and interrupt it with a psychologically safe check for missing dissent.

The room looks aligned, but only the loudest voices have spoken. Find the false-consensus cue. Two confident people nodding near the front Nodding matters, but two nods are not the whole room. The risk is what the nodding is being used to imply. Several specialists sitting silent with closed posture Correct. The decision is being treated as aligned while the people closest to execution risk have not contributed. Blank board near the facilitator A blank board may be a facilitation miss, but it is not the core interpersonal-risk cue. The silence from relevant specialists is. Open laptops on the table…

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