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Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Paper illustration for Storytelling
Facilitation
Storytelling
Purposedifferent
When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min45-90 min45-120 min
Participantsdifferent
2-64-121-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadencePerspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsNarrative Outline, Key Message, Story Arc
Tagsno overlap
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
FacilitationOptionsDecision
CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation
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Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
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Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas