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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Team Charter | ![]() Business Strategy McKinsey 7S | ![]() Systems Thinking Leverage Points | ![]() Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a team is starting fresh or working past each other, Team Charter clarifies the shared working basis. It visibly sets out how collaboration, decision paths, and mutual conduct should work day to day. | McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 2-4 h | Half day | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-12 | 3-12 | 4-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Leverage Map, Action Strategy | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | Systems thinkingChangeStrategy | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |



