 | Pictorial VisioningUsing visual images to work with our hopes for the future can prove very motivational – – – – – – – – – – … Read more |
5. Tools – making use of best-practice
 | Why-How ChartingWhy-How charting is a means of thoroughly exploring the logic of how an entity works, and why it does what it is endeavouring to do. The … Read more |
 | Activity Network DiagramThe Activity Network Diagram is one of the Seven Management and Planning Tools. |
 | Tree DiagramThe Tree Diagram is one of the Seven Management and Planning Tools. The Tree Diagram is a tool to explore exactly what needs to be done … Read more |
 | Process Decision Programme ChartThe Process Decision Programme Chart (PDPC) is one of the Seven Management and Planning Tools. The Process Decision Program Chart (PDPC) Is very similar in many … Read more |
 | Interrelationship DigraphThe Interrelationship Digraph is one of the Seven Management and Planning Tools. It is frequently used to further explore the groups that develop out of the affinity … Read more |
 | Maturity ModelsMaturity Models are useful devices for building ownership for improvement within a viable strategy of overall change. They basically consist of a number of dimensions … Read more |
 | Meeting by DesignWeb-based meetings are often seen as an inferior alternative to physical meetings something to fill in the gaps when travel is too expensive or inconvenient. … Read more |
 | Creativity ToolsCreativity templates have been constructed to stimulate and challenge the minds of the group to take different perspectives on a situation, and to see what … Read more |
 | Online tools for asynchronous collaborationThere is a huge wealth of on-line tools that can help your team to ‘meet’ without physically being in the same place at the same … Read more |
 | Reframing MatrixThe Reframing Matrix is a technique for looking at the problem from different perspectives (planning, product, people and potential, rather than the more abstract perspectives … Read more |
 | Problem RestatementProblem Restatement is a technique for looking at the problem from different perspectives (usually more abstract ones, rather than the stakeholder ones reflected in the … Read more |
 | Affinity DiagramThe Affinity Diagram is one of the Seven Management and Planning Tools and is deceptively simple. It is a means for looking at patterns and … Read more |
 | SWOT AnalysisSWOT analysis is a tool which enables groups or individuals gain a better understanding on the current situation in terms of its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities … Read more |
 | Hopes & ConcernsHopes & Concerns is a tool which enables groups to outline and share their positive and negative feelings about an event from the outset. How … Read more |
 | Six Thinking HatsSix Thinking Hats is a useful tool for taking different perspectives on a situation. It was developed by Edward deBono, and despite its apparent simplicity it … Read more |
 | Cause and Effect Fishbone (Ishikawa)The Ishikawa diagram, more commonly known as the fishbone diagram (because of its shape) or the cause and effect diagram (because of its purpose) is … Read more |
 | Kipling ListThe Kipling List is taken from a very short poem by Rudyard Kipling: “I had six serving men, they taught me all I knew, there … Read more |
 | Matrix Diagram & QFDMatrix Diagrams are an excellent device for encouraging methodical exploration of all of the potential ways that one set of things can influence another, for … Read more |
 | Seven Management and Planning toolsOne of the real strengths of the Japanese is a tendency to standardise and simplify wherever possible. Faced with an ever increasing number of management … Read more |
 | Multi-Channel TemplatesSee: The concept of a multi-channel approach Multi-Channel Involvement is about using alternative forms of input to the meeting. The standard input to a meeting tends … Read more |
 | Impact/Ease GridThe Impact/Ease grid is a four-box model (a 2×2 positioning chart) for plotting solutions (or ideas or strategies) to reflect the impact of taking them … Read more |