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Paper illustration for Accountability Ladder
Operations
Accountability Ladder
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Purposedifferent
With defensive reactions to problems, the method shifts the view from justification to ownership. It makes visible which reaction stage a person or team is currently stuck on.Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy.When a team wants to read momentum, brakes, and risks together, it offers an easily understandable picture of the situation. It makes drive, obstacles, and headwind visible in the same picture.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighLow
Timedifferent
20-45 minHalf day45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-83-124-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Ownership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching NotesLeverage Map, Action StrategySailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions
Tagsno overlap
ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
RetrospectiveTeamImprovement
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Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
A structured reflection surfaces what was liked, learned, lacked, and longed for. It is a conversation format and does not validate actions automatically.
Agile
4Ls Retrospective
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis