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Paper illustration for Storytelling
Facilitation
Storytelling
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Purposedifferent
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.In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.When stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
45-120 min20–45 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-6Small cross-functional group3-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Narrative Outline, Key Message, Story ArcRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logSalience Diagram, Strategy per Class
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CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
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Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
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Delivery
Communication Plan