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Facilitation

Dot Voting

Turns group input, selection, and decisions into a tangible result by making options visible, explaining voting limits, and discussing outliers.

Core question: Which options receive the most support from the group, and where do consensus or polarization appear?

Decision methodLowWorkshop
5-15 min
3-20

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Stakeholder Mapping

Turns options, selection, and decisions into a tangible result by listing stakeholders, assessing influence and interest, and planning next conversations.

Core question: Who is affected by the initiative, who influences success, and which relationship must be maintained with whom, at which frequency and message?

Mapping toolLowWorkshop + async
30-60 min
2-8

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Timeline

Turns options, selection, and decisions into a tangible result by defining timeframes, collecting events, and deriving insights and next actions.

Core question: Which events, decisions, and dependencies explain the trajectory, and which patterns become visible from it?

Mapping toolLowWorkshop + async
30-90 min
2-12

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Mind Mapping

Turns options, selection, and decisions into a tangible result by setting a central theme, collecting main branches, and selecting relevant areas.

Core question: Which terms, subtopics, and relationships around the guiding question are relevant, and which gaps become visible?

Mapping toolLowWorkshop + async
15-45 min
1-10

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Lean Coffee

Turns group contributions, selection, and decisions into a tangible result by collecting topics, clustering and voting on them, and documenting actions.

Core question: Which topics this group brings today deserve discussion time, and which insights or actions follow from them?

Facilitation methodLowWorkshop
30-90 min
3-20

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Barcamp

Turns group contributions, selection, and decisions into a tangible result by explaining slots and schedule, collecting session proposals, and sharing learnings.

Core question: Which topics are alive enough in this group today to deserve a session, and what does each participant take away at the end?

Facilitation methodMediumWorkshop
Halber Tag bis 2 Tage
15-200

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Six Thinking Hats

Turns group contributions, selection, and decision-making into a tangible result by defining the core question, choosing the sequence of hats, and deriving decision or next steps.

Core question: Which insights per thinking mode contribute to a more balanced assessment or decision on the guiding question?

Facilitation methodMediumWorkshop
45-90 min
4-12

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Storytelling

Turns group contributions, selection, and decision-making into a tangible result by clarifying audience and goal, formulating the core message, and deriving a call to action.

Core question: Which narrative leads the defined target group from starting state to the reaction the message needs?

Facilitation methodMediumWorkshop + async
45-120 min
1-6

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3-Circle Venn Diagram

Turns group contributions, selection, and decision-making into a tangible result by defining three perspectives, collecting items, and deriving implications.

Core question: Which items sit in which intersections of the three perspectives, and what implications follow for next decisions?

Mapping toolLowWorkshop + async
15-45 min
2-8

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Consensus Workshop

Turns group contributions, selection, and decision-making into a tangible result by asking a focus question, collecting ideas individually, and formulating consensus themes.

Core question: Which shared themes emerge from the variety of individual contributions to the focus question?

Facilitation methodMediumWorkshop
1-3 h
5-30

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Nominal Group Technique

Turns group contributions, selection, and decision-making into a tangible result by clarifying the question, collecting ideas silently, and evaluating options.

Core question: Which ideas, options, or priorities emerge when every voice gets equal space and scoring is done separately?

Decision methodMediumWorkshop
60-120 min
5-12

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Decision Jam

Turns group inputs, selection, and decision-making into a tangible result by collecting problems silently, clustering and prioritizing, and choosing experiments.

Core question: Which problem is most important right now, and which concrete first step changes it in the next 14 days?

Facilitation methodLowWorkshop
60-90 min
4-10

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Innovation

Round Robin Brainstorming

Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result by defining the challenge, setting rules and order, and clustering and selecting ideas.

Core question: Which ideas emerge when every person in the group contributes evenly and without dominance?

Workshop methodLowWorkshop
20-45 min
4-10

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Question Burst

Clarifies group input, selection, and decision-making by framing the challenge, collecting questions only, and deriving new insights and next steps.

Core question: Which questions about the challenge open new perspectives before anyone attempts an answer?

Facilitation methodLowWorkshop
15-30 min
2-8

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Responsibility Poker

Turns group input, selection, and decision into a tangible result by choosing tasks or decisions, explaining the responsibility scale, and capturing the agreement.

Core question: What expectations do team members have for responsibility per task, where do they differ, and what agreement do we make?

Facilitation methodLowWorkshop
45-90 min
3-10

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Alignment Mapping

Turns group input, selection, and decision into a tangible result by defining the alignment question, collecting stakeholder perspectives, and planning clarification steps.

Core question: Where do stakeholders align, where do they diverge, and what clarifications are needed before a decision can move forward?

Facilitation methodMediumWorkshop
1-2 h
4-12

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Knowledge Modeling

Peer Instruction

Turns concepts, relationships, and rules into a tangible result by asking a concept question, voting individually, and voting again after peer discussion.

Core question: Do learners understand the concept deeply enough to answer a well-crafted concept question correctly, or do conceptual gaps remain that peer discussion can resolve?

Facilitation methodMediumWorkshop
10-20 min je Frage
6-50

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1-2-4-All

Turns group input, selection, and decision into a tangible result by asking a focus question, reflecting individually, and sharing the strongest patterns in plenary.

Core question: Which answers, ideas, or concerns about the question emerge when each person first thinks alone and then increasingly in the group?

Facilitation methodLowWorkshop
10-20 min
4-100+

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Troika Consulting

Turns group input, selection, and decision into a tangible result by forming trios, sharing the challenge briefly, and rotating roles to capture insights.

Core question: Which perspectives, options, or blind spots do two external consultants see when the client only listens for five minutes instead of justifying?

Facilitation methodLowWorkshop
30-45 min
3-30

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Open Space Technology

Turns group input, selection, and decision into a tangible result by explaining the theme and frame, collecting session proposals, and bundling results and next steps.

Core question: Which topics under the guiding theme are important enough that people lead a session themselves, and what outcomes come out of self-organized conversations?

Facilitation methodHighWorkshop
0.5-2 Tage
20-500+

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World Café

Turns group input, selection, and decision into a tangible result by defining the guiding questions, preparing tables and host roles, and bundling patterns in plenary.

Core question: Which collective insights and new connections emerge when the same questions are discussed across several rounds in changing constellations?

Facilitation methodMediumWorkshop
60-180 min
12-100+

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Fishbowl Discussion

Turns group input, selection, and decision into a tangible result by clarifying the topic and rules, forming the inner and outer circles, and reviewing insights and tensions.

Core question: Which perspectives, arguments, and differences become visible when a focused inner circle speaks while observers can enter freely by taking a seat?

Facilitation methodMediumWorkshop
45-90 min
8-80

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Problem Framing Workshop

Turns group input, selection, and decision into a tangible result by collecting the starting situation, clarifying affected people and impacts, and choosing a shared working definition.

Core question: Which concrete problem, for which affected people, with which impact should be worked on next?

Facilitation methodLowWorkshop
60-120 min
4-10

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Power Interest Grid

Moves group input, selection, and decision toward a concrete result through "collect stakeholders individually and by group", "explain power and interest", and "derive a strategy for each quadrant".

Core question: Which stakeholders need which communication and relationship strategy, based on their power and interest in the initiative?

Mapping toolLowWorkshop
30-60 min
2-8

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Stakeholder Salience Model

Moves group input, selection, and decision toward a concrete result through "prepare the stakeholder list", "define power, legitimacy, and urgency", and "derive strategy by class".

Core question: Which stakeholders combine which combination of power, legitimacy and urgency, and which strategy follows for each of the eight classes?

Mapping toolMediumWorkshop
60-90 min
3-6

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