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Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper illustration for RAPID
Decision Making
RAPID
Purposedifferent
When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time.In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h20–45 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-30Small cross-functional group3-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority AreasRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logRAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
DecisionRolesGovernance
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Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Paper illustration of Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid