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Criterion
Paper illustration for Team Charter.
Facilitation
Team Charter
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
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.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 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.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
MediumLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 hHalf day initial, dann laufend60–90 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
3-12Ein Team plus Stakeholder2-84-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Team Charter, Working Norms, Role NotesTeam API DocumentStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk NotesAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tags1 shared
TeamAlignmentCollaboration
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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