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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Facilitation 1-2-4-All |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Innovation Round Robin Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a project, incident, or change process is only remembered in fragments, Timeline brings the sequence back into a readable form. It makes turning points, precursors, and after-effects recognizable over the course of time. | When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 10-20 min | 45-90 min | 20-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 4-100+ | 2-8 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | FacilitationInclusionIdeation | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity |