Consensus training, scored live.
A consensus tool for team trainings. It runs in the browser on people's own phones and works best at tables of four to eight. A normal session plays two rounds, each on a different scenario.
Everyone ranks fifteen options alone. Then each table has to agree on one list. At the end, the room sees whether the table did better than its own best member. You can start with the ready-made scenarios, or run it on your own company's problems.
Rank alone. Agree together. See who was right.
Start with ours, then bring your own
Four ready-made scenario packs come built in, so you can try the format before you write anything:
- Whiteout: a plane down on a frozen lake in Lapland
- Adrift: a disabled boat on the open Baltic
- Grid Down: a city blackout, eleven floors up
- The Office Move: fifty people, one weekend, one van
When you know how it runs, add your own content: your company, your problems, your topics. The fifteen options can be decisions, risks, priorities or people, anything a team should be able to rank and defend. You set the expert order and the reason behind each rank.
An AI assistant does the heavy lifting. Describe the situation and it drafts the case one step at a time: the story, the options, the ranking with reasons, and the debrief questions. You read and fix each step before it reaches a room.
Who it's for
Trainers, HR and team leads running leadership programmes, onboarding days and offsites. It's for the moment you want people to see how their group makes decisions, rather than hear another slide about it.
How it plays
People join by link or QR and pick their table. Six minutes to rank alone, in silence. Then fifteen minutes for the table to argue its way to one shared list, where every move is signed with a name. The projector then reveals the expert order from fifteen up to one, with a short reason for each rank, and the scores update as it goes.
The finale puts three numbers side by side for every table: the average member, the best member and the table itself. Then the next round starts at the same tables with a new scenario, so the room can use what it just learned. The summary exports to Excel.
What it does to a room
Quiet people get heard, because their solo list is on record before anyone talks. Loud people find out whether being loud was worth it. The Hidden Expert award names the person whose table didn't listen, and names on the wall can be switched off. It needs a facilitator: the debrief is the part people remember, and the host guide gives you the questions.
Survival Council is the most serious tool in the Games for Crowds library. If you want the room laughing rather than thinking, pick one of the party games instead.