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Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Systems Mapping
Paper illustration for Responsibility Poker.
Facilitation
Responsibility Poker
Paper illustration for Accountability Ladder
Operations
Accountability Ladder
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Purposedifferent
Systems Mapping arranges elements, relationships, and boundaries so a complex field becomes legible at a glance. The overview stabilizes the overall picture before detail work or steering begins.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.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.Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowHigh
Timedifferent
1-3 h45-90 min20-45 minHalf day
Participantsdifferent
3-123-101-83-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
System Map, Dependencies, Leverage PointsResponsibility Map, Role Agreements, Open QuestionsOwnership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching NotesLeverage Map, Action Strategy
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingMappingBoundariesChange
RolesResponsibilityTeamFacilitation
ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
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