Kollegiale Beratung

At the beginning of many consequential innovations often lies a simple idea. This is also true for collegial consultation: it is based on the consideration that people from similar fields can provide qualified advice to each other on professional issues. While this often happens informally, it takes on a specific structure here. One group member is advised by the other participants in designated roles according to a fixed procedure, with the aim of developing solutions for a specific question or problem. These consultation groups, consisting of five to ten members, operate without a professional or external advisor; the group itself possesses the know-how and distributes the responsibility for the consulting process among all members. In several steps or phases, solutions are independently developed that help to address concrete practical problems as well as challenges.