Consensus Building

Consensus-Building is a recognized method for groups, businesses, and associations who want to resolve complex issues. It is based on a set of management principles where the main goal is reaching consensus through facilitated dialogue and interactive methods.  A facilitated Consensus-Building session is designed for group decision-making and complex problem-solving.

Examples of some typical meetings for which we employ Consensus-Building include: bringing executives, entrepreneurs or stakeholders together in order to identify the key barriers to their business in Europe; helping representatives of a European federation with diverging views find a common position; facilitating representatives of an interest group to define options for action on a given issue; or finding common ground for stakeholders who disagree on the best way to tackle an issue through legislation. 

Our Consensus-Building process is highly interactive. While LOGOS facilitates the meeting, taking charge of process matters, participants will concentrate on content, providing their own ideas and develop them into a plan of action. The sessions are a useful tool to reach consensus not only among groups of executives, entrepreneurs, stakeholders, and associations but also within a company. Using the relevant set of Consensus- Building methodologies, our experienced facilitators will help the group identify the underlying causes of the problem as well as to define key challenges they are facing.  The groups then generate, select and prioritize options for action. LOGOS offers programmes which can then develop action plans for the group to begin tackling the root problems and find solutions.

LOGOS can provide Consensus-Building packages which may consist of an event occurring over several days in a neutral environment (recent venues included Vienna, Barcelona and Prague), during which the group can work and socialise at the same time. Consensus-Building meetings are also excellent networking events and often increase the desire of participants to continue to work together.