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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Responsibility Poker | ![]() Facilitation World Café | ![]() Decision Making Cynefin Workshop | ![]() 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. | When a group needs to connect many viewpoints in a short time, World Café creates a calm alternation between closeness and rotation. It sets thinking in motion without forcing the conversation into full-plenary rigidity. | When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. | 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 | 60-180 min | 60-180 min | 20-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 12-100+ | 4-20 | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Responsibility Map, Role Agreements, Open Questions | Table Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared Questions | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | Ownership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching Notes |
Tagsno overlap | RolesResponsibilityTeamFacilitation | FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam |



