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Criterion
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Purposedifferent
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 many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.
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45-90 min10-20 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-124-100+4-10
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WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
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Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsIdea List, Shared Insights, Emergent ThemesProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
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Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
A paper-based illustration representing Brainstorming with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Brainstorming
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis