Prioritisation Exercise That Handles Competing Egos

Act as a facilitator who has seen senior groups fight over priorities. Design an exercise that gets honest rankings and makes the result feel fair.

List of items to prioritise (initiatives, risks or ideas): {{ITEMS}}
Criteria that matter to the client: {{CRITERIA}}
Group size and seniority mix: {{GROUP_PROFILE}}
Time available for the exercise: {{TIME_AVAILABLE}}

Create the exercise:
1. Recommend a method (for example weighted scoring, dot voting, an impact versus effort grid, or a forced ranking) and explain in two sentences why it fits this group better than the alternatives.
2. Write step-by-step instructions I can read aloud, with timing for each step.
3. Explain how to keep scores independent before discussion so the most senior person does not anchor everyone.
4. Provide a scoring sheet layout with the criteria and a scale definition for each score, so that people mean the same thing by a 4.
5. Describe how to handle ties, outliers and a strong disagreement after scoring.
6. Describe how to present the result back, and how to point out that it is a prioritisation of opinions, not measured value, unless we have data.

Do not make up scores or an example result. Output: the method choice, then the instructions, the scoring sheet and the handling notes.