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Criterion
Paper timeline with three dates, parallel lanes for work, signals and decisions, and labeled links.
Facilitation
Timeline
Paper mind map with a central course onboarding question, colored main branches, keywords and cross-links.
Facilitation
Mind Mapping
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 topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early.
Complexitysame
LowLow
Timedifferent
30-90 min15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
2-121-10
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Timeline, Milestones, Insight NotesMind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions
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TimelineFacilitationSequence
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
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