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.
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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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.
Every tool, explained.
The science behind the tools and how to run them, is in the book: High-Impact Tools for Teams.