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Criterion
Paper illustration for Team Charter.
Facilitation
Team Charter
Paper illustration of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
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
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Timedifferent
2-4 h2-4 hHalf day1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
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Outputdifferent
Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change ActionsLeverage Map, Action StrategyAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCollaboration
OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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