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Criterion
Paper timeline with three dates, parallel lanes for work, signals and decisions, and labeled links.
Facilitation
Timeline
Paper illustration for Troika Consulting.
Facilitation
Troika Consulting
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
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 someone needs to sort out a concrete work problem, Troika Consulting offers fast peer consulting with a tight focus. The method brings perspectives together without taking responsibility out of the person's hands.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
30-90 min30-45 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-123-304-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Timeline, Milestones, Insight NotesAdvice Notes, Next Actions, Peer InsightsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tags1 shared
TimelineFacilitationSequence
FacilitationCoachingLearning
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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A3 Problem-Solving workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
A3 Problem Solving
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Paper illustration for Kepner-Tregoe
Operations
Kepner-Tregoe