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| Criterion |  Facilitation Dot Voting |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Facilitation Six Thinking Hats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | When loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 45-120 min | 60-120 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-20 | 2-8 | 5-12 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action Items |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | FacilitationOptionsDecision |