The phrase "achieve common ground" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where parties are trying to find mutual understanding or agreement on a particular issue.
Example: "During the negotiations, both sides worked hard to achieve common ground on the key issues."
Alternatives: "find mutual understanding" or "reach a consensus".
"It's come to the arena of trying to achieve common ground on money, which is easier said than done".
"The California legislature and the U.S. Congress find it much more difficult to achieve common ground and the type of compromise that is essential for the legislative process".
In this article, I argue that people rely on an intuitive interactional method I call marking to define, constrain, and maintain their understanding of the task at hand and achieve common ground to solve collaborative design problems.
Thus, embarking on this process to achieve Common Ground should be initiated at the first contact of the healthcare team with any surrogate, ideally before any conflict has arisen.
Family physicians can work to achieve Common Ground with substitute decision-makers of dying patients as a means to prevent and/or manage conflict and facilitate the mutual goal of achieving a "good death" experience for everyone involved.
Following the Northeast Ohio examples, panelists spoke about "Is Civility Dead," How to Achieve Common Ground," "Engaging Millennials," and "Polling and the Media," all within the context of shared values and shared responsibilities.
Today's campaign finance bill represents a compromise between House and Senate Democrats who in recent weeks achieved common ground over the issue after each had proposed separate, and very different, campaign finance proposals earlier this year.
But achieving common ground can be elusive in the aftermath of a brutal election.
Facilitators and barriers to achieving Common Ground were identified.
Our framework emphasizes that this process of achieving Common Ground relies on time as the ultimate facilitator.
Matching expectations are indicators of the concept of closing "Calman's gap" [ 5, 6] which, to some degree, represent our concept of achieving Common Ground.
