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| Criterion |  Facilitation Troika Consulting |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |  Facilitation 1-2-4-All |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When someone needs to sort out a concrete work problem, Troika Consulting offers fast peer consulting with a tight focus. The method brings perspectives together without taking responsibility out of the person's hands. | 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 central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. | When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-45 min | 60-120 min | 45-90 min | 10-20 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-30 | 5-12 | 3-10 | 4-100+ |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Advice Notes, Next Actions, Peer Insights | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationCoachingLearning | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop | FacilitationInclusionIdeation |