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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop |  Facilitation Six Thinking Hats |
|---|---|---|---|
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 a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins. | When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 60-120 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 4-10 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan | Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action Items |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions | FacilitationOptionsDecision |
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