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Criterion
Paper illustration of Team Cognitive Load Assessment with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team Cognitive Load Assessment
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis
Purposedifferent
When a team juggles too many domains, systems, or handoffs, it measures mental overload as an organizational problem. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a cognitive-load profile and action list.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.In change initiatives, supporting and restraining forces sit at the table at the same time. Force Field Analysis makes these tensions explicit and shows where change can be pushed forward by strengthening or relieving.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
60-90 minHalf day45-90 min
Participantssame
3-123-123-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Cognitive Load Profile, Action ListLeverage Map, Action StrategyForce Field Map, Change Levers, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
TeamComplexityImprovementDiagnosis
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
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Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
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