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Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Purposedifferent
When expectations between teams stay fuzzy, it describes how a team can be reached, used, and held accountable. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Team API document.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend1-2 h60–90 min
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder4-122-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes
Tags1 shared
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
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Paper illustration for Expectation Mapping.
Facilitation
Expectation Mapping
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Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
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Facilitation
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