Alignment Toolset

Basic alignment tools. Techniques for agreeing on a clear shared purpose and the practical steps to get there. These ideas will help you to bring the meeting together. Simply glance through the boxes below and click on the alignment tools that interest you.

Threshold of Pride

Setting practical worthwhile goals by accessing our feelings about them – ...

Pictorial Visioning

Using visual images to work with our hopes for the future ...

Objectives and Agenda

Steps to defining a powerful purpose and process – – – ...

Using a ‘Parking Lot’

Keeping on track by effectively managing distractions – – – – ...

Questions to build Alignment

Using questions to build agreement to a shared purpose – – ...

Hopes and Concerns

A simple way to draw out and manage hidden agendas – ...

Planning matrix for meetings

Maximise your meeting efficiency with this design tool – – – ...

Session Plans

Building clarity over your intent, methods and timings – – – ...

Laying out your process

Making the journey and progress of the meeting visible – – ...

Checking back on the objectives

Learning from how well the objectives have been met – – ...

For instant tools that can be set up in seconds and engage people quickly. Take a look at the Instant Participation Templates.

Cannot find the assembly tools you are looking for?

The full meeting toolchest is a comprehensive selection of tools and techniques to support good facilitation of better meetings. But a large selection can prove a bit overwhelming to someone just starting out. For this reason we limit what is offered in the basic section of the site. However, the full set is freely available – simply click on the advanced tab at the top of the page. And this will give you full access.

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