Five tools that put a team on the same page.

The visual tools from High-Impact Tools for Teams, designed by Stefano Mastrogiacomo and free to download. Used in workshops, meetings and classrooms in more than ten languages.

A Team Contract filled in by a team during an online webinar
A Team Contract filled in during an online webinar.

The tools

  • Team Alignment Map

    Plan any project on one page: joint objectives, commitments, resources and risks. It makes a team's common ground visible, the shared understanding people assume they have and usually don't.

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  • Team Contract

    Agree how you will work together before the work starts: the rules that prevent the frictions later.

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  • Fact Finder

    Separate facts from the stories we tell about them and defuse a misunderstanding before it hardens.

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  • Nonviolent Requests Guide

    Ask for what you need without triggering defensiveness, built on Marshall Rosenberg's work.

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  • Respect Card

    The conversational moves that keep a team's climate safe enough to do hard work together.

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  • Team Alignment Map for Assessments

    The assessment mode of the Team Alignment Map: take a team's pulse on objectives, commitments, resources and risks and catch where alignment is slipping before it costs you.

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What practitioners say

“Stefano's Team Alignment Map is the most effective, action-oriented strategy tool I have seen in my 15 years activity as a facilitator.”

Thomas Steiner
CEO, immotour

“Stefano created a very powerful, practical, and intuitive set of tools, supporting teams on many levels.”

Jacek T. Romański
Trainer and consultant

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Other languages

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All tools © Stefano Mastrogiacomo, free for personal and in-house team use. For commercial reuse inside a product or a paid programme, please ask about a licence.

The source

How to use each tool

High-Impact Tools for Teams explains the research behind the tools and how to use them.

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