Systemic consensus in project management

Basics

• Why cooperative decisions and a high level of acceptance are so important.
• The typical mistakes in decision-making processes - and their painful consequences.
• What makes a decision - and what types of decisions there are.
• Connection between decision-making process and organizational culture.

Introduction to systemic consensus building (SK)

• The scientific foundations of systemic consensus building.
• Get to know the overall system of SC: decision, culture, process and moderation.
• Understand and confidently carry out the SC decision-making process.
• Typical questions and examples.

The implementation of systemic consensus

• Establish clarity about the real problem and the desired solution.
• Plan the decision-making process and recognize the relevant framework conditions.
• Making the needs of all parties visible and understanding them.
• Develop, structure, combine, develop and evaluate proposals.
• Making resistance visible and developing it into productive inspiration.
• Decide on the further process, carry out iterations, integrate findings and significantly improve the solutions.

Developing cooperative moderation skills

• Create a cooperative culture in the group.
• Learn to distinguish between content and process level.
• Use resistance as a valuable resource.
• Dealing with strong resistance in the group.
• Learning to promote creative co-creation.
• Develop a cooperative self-image for moderation.

Application in practice

• Experience and apply the process live - also with online tools.
• Run through the participants' decision-making situations with the help of the SC and plan individual cases.
• Consider typical decisions in agile teams.