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Criterion
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Surveys method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
Surveys
Paper illustration of shared options, independently placed voting dots, and a highlighted shortlist.
Facilitation
Dot Voting
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
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.When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal.When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h3-14 Tage5-15 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-3050+3-204-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority AreasSurvey Results, Charts, Segment InsightsRanked list, Consensus signal, ShortlistProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
QuantitativeResearchValidation
FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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