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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 many question cards around one challenge
Facilitation
Question Burst
Rich Picture workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Rich Picture
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.When a problem gets covered up too quickly with answers, Question Burst puts the better question at the center. The format opens the thinking space before the group commits to an interpretation.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
60-90 min15-30 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-122-82-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Cognitive Load Profile, Action ListQuestion List, Reframed Challenge, Learning PromptsRich Picture, Problem Framing Notes
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TeamComplexityImprovementDiagnosis
QuestionsReframingFacilitationSensemaking
Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization
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