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| Criterion |  Facilitation Responsibility Poker |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Facilitation Six Thinking Hats |  Operations Accountability Ladder |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When it stays unclear who carries responsibility and who only contributes, Responsibility Poker makes the distribution of responsibility explicit. It sharpens the boundaries between weighing in, deciding, and bearing consequences. | 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. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 45-120 min | 45-90 min | 20-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 4-12 | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Responsibility Map, Role Agreements, Open Questions | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action Items | Ownership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching Notes |
Tagsno overlap | RolesResponsibilityTeamFacilitation | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | FacilitationOptionsDecision | ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam |