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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
A paper tomato timer connects a focus task, short breaks and a work record.
Operations
Pomodoro Technique
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
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.For easily distracted solo work, the method sets clear time boundaries for concentrated work. It protects attention when large tasks would otherwise fall apart into small avoidance moves.When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min25 min Zyklen30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-1212-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsFocus Sessions, Task Progress, Interruption NotesConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationOptionsDecision
FocusTime managementProductivityExecution
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
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Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
Paper illustration for Eat the Frog
Operations
Eat the Frog
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration for Time Blocking
Operations
Time Blocking