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| Criterion |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Facilitation Storytelling |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | When an insight needs to have an effect, storytelling translates dry facts into a comprehensible development. It combines context, tension, and consequence into a form that people remember and pass on more easily. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 45-120 min | 45-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 1-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Narrative Outline, Key Message, Story Arc | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions |
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