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Facilitation

Dot Voting

Lets a group prioritize options with sticker dots, making preferences visible within minutes.

Core question: Which options merit further examination based on the group's independent preferences?

Decision methodLowWorkshop
  • 5-15 min
  • 3-20
Facilitation

Stakeholder Mapping

Arranges influence, interest, and relationships into a working map that makes engagement and risks transparent.

Core question: Which actor groups are affected or influential here, what assumptions apply, and how will they participate?

Mapping toolLowWorkshop + async
  • 60–90 min
  • 2-8
Facilitation

Timeline

Condenses events into a chronological view of milestones, patterns, and dependencies.

Core question: Which supported events and turning points explain how the situation developed during the reviewed period?

Mapping toolLowWorkshop + async
  • 30-90 min
  • 2-12
Facilitation

Mind Mapping

Unfolds a central topic into branches, clusters, and open questions until relevant areas become selectable.

Core question: Which major areas, details and relationships belong to this central topic?

Mapping toolLowWorkshop + async
  • 15-45 min
  • 1-10
Facilitation

Lean Coffee

Prioritizes topics by voting and timeboxed discussion, so many points turn into clear action items.

Core question: Which topics matter to the people present now, and how should we use the available conversation time together?

Facilitation methodLowWorkshop
  • 30-90 min
  • 3-20
Facilitation

Barcamp

Organizes session proposals, agenda, and self-led conversations that produce documentable learnings.

Core question: Which sessions do the people present want to offer and attend today so that shared learning emerges?

Facilitation methodMediumWorkshop
  • Halber Tag bis 2 Tage
  • 15-200
Facilitation

Six Thinking Hats

Deliberately switches between perspectives to gather decision inputs in a structured way and spot blind spots.

Core question: What becomes visible when we examine the same question in turn through information, feeling, value, caution, creativity and process control?

Facilitation methodMediumWorkshop
  • 45-90 min
  • 4-12
Facilitation

Storytelling

Sharpens goal, core message, and arc of tension so a narrative leads clearly to action or decision.

Core question: What should this audience understand from the story and decide next?

Facilitation methodMediumWorkshop + async
  • 45-120 min
  • 1-6
Facilitation

3-Circle Venn Diagram

Compares three perspectives in a shared picture and makes overlaps as visible as differences.

Core question: Which elements belong to exactly one, two or all three sets?

Mapping toolLowWorkshop + async
  • 15-45 min
  • 2-8
Facilitation

Consensus Workshop

Condenses individual ideas into clusters, themes, and priorities so consensus grows out of individual contributions.

Core question: What shared picture emerges from our different answers to the focus question?

Facilitation methodMediumWorkshop
  • 1-3 h
  • 5-30
Facilitation

Nominal Group Technique

Collects ideas silently, clarifies understanding, and lets the group prioritize, so quiet voices don't get lost.

Core question: Which change would most improve the handoff between support and engineering?

Decision methodMediumWorkshop
  • 60-120 min
  • 5-12
Facilitation

Decision Jam

Sorts problems, reframes the top issue, and derives experiments that quickly turn frustration into movement.

Core question: Which most important problem will we address with which solution as the next experiment?

Facilitation methodLowWorkshop
  • 60-90 min
  • 4-10
Innovation

Round Robin Brainstorming

Ensures participation in turn, produces a broad idea list, and then leads it into clusters and a shortlist.

Core question: Which different ideas emerge when everyone receives an equal turn?

Workshop methodLowWorkshop
  • 20-45 min
  • 4-10
Facilitation

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 change how we understand and approach the challenge?

Facilitation methodLowWorkshop
  • 15-30 min
  • 2-8
Facilitation

Responsibility Poker

Makes accountability negotiable and visible, helping negotiate roles, expectations, and open questions cleanly.

Core question: Who owns each concrete result, and where are participation or escalation needed?

Facilitation methodLowWorkshop
  • 45-90 min
  • 3-10
Facilitation

Alignment Mapping

Makes goals, concerns, and open gaps visible so clarification steps can be planned deliberately.

Core question: Which statements are shared, where do goals or assumptions diverge, and what clarification follows?

Facilitation methodMediumWorkshop
  • 1-2 h
  • 4-12
Knowledge Modeling

Peer Instruction

Uses concept questions, votes, and peer discussion to measure understanding and deepen it together.

Core question: Which reasoning supports the answer, and how does understanding change after peer exchange?

Facilitation methodMediumWorkshop
  • 10-20 min je Frage
  • 6-50
Facilitation

1-2-4-All

Moves ideas from silent reflection through pair exchange into the group and condenses patterns.

Core question: Which ideas and experiences from everyone help with our concrete focus question?

Facilitation methodLowWorkshop
  • 10-20 min
  • 4-100+
Facilitation

Troika Consulting

Gives one person precise peer feedback through three roles and records key next actions and observations.

Core question: What concrete help can two peers offer for a real challenge?

Facilitation methodLowWorkshop
  • 30-45 min
  • 3-30
Facilitation

Open Space Technology

Enables self-organized sessions where the agenda, proceedings, and action topics emerge from actual need.

Core question: Which topics must participants put on the agenda themselves to act on the theme?

Facilitation methodHighWorkshop
  • 0.5-2 Tage
  • 20-500+
Facilitation

World Café

Rotates small conversation groups so table notes, questions, and emergent themes are built on together.

Core question: Which patterns emerge when different perspectives connect the same questions across table rounds?

Facilitation methodMediumWorkshop
  • 60-180 min
  • 12-100+
Facilitation

Fishbowl Discussion

Separates an inner and outer circle so discussion, observation, and tensions become visible at the same time.

Core question: How can a focused inner discussion gain diversity through visible observation and governed rotation?

Facilitation methodMediumWorkshop
  • 45-90 min
  • 8-80
Facilitation

Problem Framing Workshop

Collects the starting situation, assumptions, and boundaries, and turns them into a precise problem statement.

Core question: Which concrete problem for which people in which context is evidenced, meaningfully bounded, and open to several solutions?

Facilitation methodLowWorkshop
  • 60-120 min
  • 4-10
Facilitation

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: Who can affect the specific outcome, who is affected by it, and what form of engagement is appropriate?

Mapping toolLowWorkshop
  • 30-60 min
  • 2-8
Facilitation

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 stakeholder claims possess power, legitimacy, and urgency in this decision, and what attention follows?

Mapping toolMediumWorkshop
  • 60-90 min
  • 3-6