PSDA.13:5.2 - A manager’s summary is not a team’s consent

A manager proposes a development direction and asks staff to comment in a meeting where dissent could affect their assignments. Silence is not an adequate basis for “the team supports the plan”.

The facilitator offers an appropriately protected response route or a separately facilitated discussion and states its real disclosure limits. Until usable participation is possible, the return reports the manager’s proposal and the limitation on staff input. It does not fabricate agreement, infer hidden opposition, or undertake specialist safeguarding work without its proper support.