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| Criterion |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  UX Research Surveys |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
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 an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 3-14 Tage | 60–90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-30 | 50+ | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | QuantitativeResearchValidation | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange |
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