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Criterion
Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
Purposedifferent
When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
10-20 min1-2 h30 min Setup, dann laufend20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
4-100+4-121-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone4-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent ThemesAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsRAID Log, Status Report SourceIdea List, Cluster, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationInclusionIdeation
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity
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