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Paper illustration for Storytelling
Facilitation
Storytelling
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
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.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 need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
45-120 min45-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-64-122-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Narrative Outline, Key Message, Story ArcPerspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation
FacilitationOptionsDecision
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas