The phrase "achieving a shared understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where collaboration, communication, or consensus is being discussed, particularly in team settings or discussions.
Example: "The workshop focused on achieving a shared understanding among team members to enhance collaboration on the project."
Alternatives: "reaching a common understanding" or "establishing mutual comprehension."
Members become aware of their objective group identity only by achieving a shared understanding of their predicament with other group members.
This needs to be sustained, intense, mutually respectful and focused on achieving a shared understanding of quality problems and joint working to put them right.
Some 'dialogical' methods rely on hermeneutic philosophy to explain how this agreement works, appealing to a 'fusion of horizons' premised on achieving a shared understanding and interpretation of the world.
Process considerations included building rapport; ensuring sufficient time for discussion; use of clear language; assessment of patient and family understanding; achieving a shared understanding; and respecting patient values and preferences.
The first relates to the reality of using standardised outcome measures in the clinical context and the second concerns the process of achieving a shared understanding of scoring guidelines amongst clinicians from different professional backgrounds when working with patients with severe and multiple complex problems.
We discuss the process used to help a range of farmers, industry stakeholders, and scientists to achieve a shared understanding of the cockchafer-pasture-agribusiness system.
Because the Grade 3 students and teachers would have spent a lot of time together, they would have been more likely than their Grade 4 counterparts to have achieved a shared understanding of assessment criteria.
They can then extend this self-awareness "across the entire team to achieve a shared understanding of the most effective and efficient modes of working together". In a world full of big and complicated problems, we need super-sized teams to solve them.
By using active listening skills and understanding interests rather than positions, ICU workers can help to achieve a shared understanding among parties in conflict.
To avoid choices being experienced as arbitrary and bureaucratic, policy makers, professionals, and patients will need to achieve a shared understanding of being mutually subject to broad ecological influences and then work collaboratively for meaningful goals within that understanding.
