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Criterion
Paper illustration for Team Charter.
Facilitation
Team Charter
Rich Picture workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Rich Picture
Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
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Decision Making
Argument 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.A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early.When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h30-90 min60-180 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-122-104-201-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Team Charter, Working Norms, Role NotesRich Picture, Problem Framing NotesCynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking NotesArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCollaboration
Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization
ComplexitySensemakingDecision
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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