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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping | ![]() Facilitation Nominal Group Technique | ![]() Facilitation Stakeholder Salience Model | ![]() Facilitation Dot Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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 stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 60–90 min | 60-120 min | 60-90 min | 5-15 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 5-12 | 3-6 | 3-20 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Salience Diagram, Strategy per Class | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist |
Tags1 shared | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization |



