Systemic consensus in project management
Make decisions faster together and develop sustainable solutions
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Contents
Basics: Understanding Decision-Making in Projects Better
- Why collaborative decision-making and high levels of acceptance drive projects forward.
- What common mistakes slow down decision-making processes—and what consequences this has for teams and projects.
- What makes for good decision-making and what types of decisions there are.
- How decision-making processes and organizational culture are related.
Introduction to Systemic Consensus-Building
- What are the scientific principles underlying systemic consensus-building?
- How the entire system works: Decision-making, culture, process, and facilitation.
- How to Understand and Confidently Apply the Decision-Making Process of Systemic Consensus-Building.
- What are some common questions that come up in practice—and how to handle them.
Implementing Systemic Consensus-Building
- Identify the actual problem and refine the intended solution.
- Plan the decision-making process and identify key factors.
- To identify and better understand the needs of all stakeholders.
- Develop, structure, combine, develop and evaluate proposals.
- Identify obstacles and use them as inspiration for better solutions.
- Decide on the next steps, carry out iterations, incorporate insights, and make targeted improvements to solutions.
Developing cooperative moderation skills
- Create a cooperative culture in the group.
- Clearly distinguish between the content and process levels.
- Use resistance as a valuable resource.
- Handle strong resistance within the group with confidence.
- Promote creative co-creation—that is, the collaborative development of new solutions.
- Develop a cooperative self-image for moderation.
Application in practice
- Experience and apply the process firsthand—even with online tools.
- Simulate decision-making scenarios for participants using Systemic Consensus and develop concrete plans for their own cases. Examine typical decisions made in agile teams.
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
Your benefit
After the training, you'll be able to make decision-making processes clearer, more collaborative, and more effective. You'll learn how to incorporate different interests while still achieving results.
- You make decisions that are more widely accepted by the team.
- You identify obstacles early on and use them to improve solutions.
- You reduce conflicts because those involved can share their perspectives.
- You foster collaboration, self-organization, and accountability within the team.
- You'll be able to handle difficult decision-making situations with greater confidence.
- You develop better solutions because you make strategic use of different perspectives.
- You can use this method for both small, everyday decisions and complex project issues.
- You know how to apply systemic consensus-building both in person and online.
- You'll plan specific next steps for your own decision-making questions based on your day-to-day project work.
After attending this seminar, you will receive a certificate for 13.00 PDUs
Methods
Facilitator guidance, practical exercises, case studies, discussions, plenary sessions, and small-group work. You’ll work with specific decision-making scenarios from your day-to-day project work. You’ll also practice applying the method both in person and using online tools.
Recommended for
This training is suitable for project managers, project managers coaches, Scrum Masters, Scrum Product Owners, members of agile project and product teams, as well as subject matter experts and managers who want to better manage decisions involving multiple stakeholders.
This method is especially helpful when you need to reconcile different interests in projects—for example, within a team, with stakeholders with clients.
PDUs: 13.0
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Start dates and details
Thursday, 12.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 13.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, June 16, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, June 17, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
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