The decision announced as shared may have reached most people after it was already settled.

Consultation and announcement can look identical from a distance. If the meeting comes after the direction was fixed, the invitation to contribute is real in form and empty in effect, and people notice quickly. What follows is not resistance to the decision so much as reluctance to be asked next time.

If you are running something, be plain about which decisions are open and which are already made. People will accept a settled answer far more easily than a consultation that turns out to have been a presentation.