Consulting

Consulting

The CONSENSE project has been built on more than 50 years of combined experiences in facilitating projects and meetings dealing with complex issues and involving several stakeholders from a dozen to several hundred or thousands…. 

This experience allows the CONSENSE team to offer a structured portfolios of “collective intelligence” skills and solutions. Our consulting approach always follow a “down-to-earth” approach : We listen to your needs and we design a specific offer, explaining the expected and tangible impact around collective intelligence and decisions within your organisation or project.

The following sections explain the main categories of needs we regularly pitch for, and our first references

The CONSENSE project has been built on more than 50 years of combined experiences in facilitating projects and meetings dealing with complex issues and involving several stakeholders from a dozen to several hundred or thousands…. 

This experience allows the CONSENSE team to offer a structured portfolios of “collective intelligence” skills and solutions. Our consulting approach always follow a “down-to-earth” approach : We listen to your needs and we design a specific offer, explaining the expected and tangible impact around collective intelligence and decisions within your organisation or project.

The following sections explain the main categories of needs we regularly pitch for, and our first references

PULSE - Collective Intelligence Audit

Key words: Human ressources, Governance, Innovation, Due Diligence…

We help organisations assess how effectively they harness the knowledge, creativity, and collaboration of their people, internally and/or in their relationship with external stakeholders

• Through interviews, surveys, and behavioural analysis, we identify strengths, blind spots, and barriers to participation

PULSE will reveal how decisions are made and how to improve them

Outcomes : a clear roadmap to unlock your team’s collective intelligence and build a more connected, adaptive organisation

SMART CONSULT - Innovative Stakeholder dialogues & Consultations

Key words: Consultation, Change management, Territorial Management, seminars…,

Most consultations and stakeholder dialogues, private and public, are organised with very static approach that does not allow a precise collect of information, perceptions and ideas from participants

The data collected are very often difficult to analyse because of unequal participation of segments of stakeholders. In most cases, these consultations are considered like being “fake” , “biaised” or “unfair”which also reduce the motivation for stakeholders to actually participate and contribute.

SMART CONSULT is a process leading organisations to initiate dialogues and consultations that will create much richer results. It is also create trust within participating parties

Outcomes : The outputs of Consult will be much faster usable and the rationale for future (post-consultation phase) activities will be stronger, leading to enhanced acceptance following steps (projects, policies, regulations, change, etc.)

ENGAGE - Inclusive Governance

Key words: Strategy, Social acceptability, Permitting, Policy making, Alignment of stakeholders among a public or private network, associations…

Inclusive governance design refers to the deliberate creation of decision-making structures, processes, and institutions that actively include all relevant stakeholders

In a corporate, it refers to structuring corporate decision-making, oversight, and stakeholder engagement so that the organization’s governance reflects and serves the diversity of its people and stakeholders, not just its shareholders or senior executives

• With ENGAGE, Consense has the skills and methodologies to bring stakeholder perspectives into governance and decision-making processes step by step and make sure that “inclusivity” create value

Outcomes : Organisations are guided to institutionalize engagement using different vehicles such as stakeholder councils, annual dialogues, employee forums, scenario building, supplier roundtables and collective decisions solutions that are both traceable and visual

CO-DECISION LAB - Facilitation of Meetings & Projects

Key words: Events, Meetings, seminar, war rooms…

Key words: Events, Meetings, seminar, war rooms…

Far too many events continue to fail in engaging the participants in such a way that they not only feel part of the conversation, but also from a process where collective intelligence of the audience have been used.

• Events, both with internal or external audiences, represent big investments (time, travel & accomdation, speakers, etc) in which audience engagement tools are very often ignore

CO-DECISION LAB propose very practical and easy to deploy tools that will allow event conveyors to mobilize the collective intelligence of their audience in specific sessions.

Outcomes : Beside the “WOW effect” of such collective intelligence sessions, your event will enter the category of highly participative experience. Results of the CI session will create unique audience intelligence that can not be obtain from sessions not using CO-DECISION LAB

Case studies

Mexico
Operating permit for a wind farm

A participatory process that allowed for the alignment of local communities, NGOs, operators, and investors.

CHANEL
Reinventing Supplier Relationships

A co-constructed storytelling with stakeholders, key to the success of their sustainable strategy.

Madagascar
Co-construction of a responsible cocoa sector

From the alignment of local producers to the commitments of international buyers.