This thesis develops and exploratorily evaluates Step-by-Step Focus (SSF), a structured meeting framework for decision-oriented organizational meetings. SSF is designed to improve decision clarity, responsibility assignment, procedural fairness, and cognitive manageability through sequential process logic, explicit closure, and a distinct Moderator role.
The empirical study follows an exploratory mixed-methods pilot design across four anonymized organizations operating in distributed or remote-oriented settings. In total, 32 recurring meetings were examined, and 159 usable participant responses were retained after data cleaning. On the 0–100 participant response scale, decision clarity increased from 41.18 to 72.83 and responsibility clarity from 45.86 to 74.38, while frustration decreased from 51.17 to 32.60. In addition, the mean closure rate increased from 0.56 to 0.81.
These findings suggest that SSF may strengthen clarity, accountability, and procedural quality in decision-oriented meetings. At the same time, as a non-randomized and context-dependent pilot, the study does not support causal claims or broad generalization. Overall, SSF appears conceptually plausible and practically promising as a meeting-level process architecture for decision-oriented organizational settings.
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- Pedro Palmeira (Author), 2026, Step-by-Step Focus (SSF), Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/1728551
