Muti-Perspective Worksheet PDF
You are about to plan out your year of activities, a project, or event. You maybe find yourself in one of these situations:

• You are working with other people, but they aren’t around.
• You find yourself in a meeting to discuss and you aren’t getting anywhere.
• You have started to execute a timeline and everyone is saying “but I thought…”

I could go on and on. Here is an easy fix that lives in a basic principle, that a multi-perspective anything needs the voices of the multiple perspectives. Follow this basic format:

Date/Activity Description/Objective of Activity | Describe each party’s involvement

This can be used in a few different ways:

• Meeting discussion – Everyone creates their own timeline and then reconvenes to discuss.
• Preparation to meet with a partner – Identify where you still are unclear, recognize places that are open for discussion, and think through the different layers of involvement (exposing your assumptions, objectives, and gaps in understanding).
• Collaborative memo – Write your timeline up with lots of space for comments and edits. Pass this on like a chain letter to all appropriate parties. When it returns…VALUE and community understanding (Google Docs is great for this).

They key is for ideas and contributions to be developed independently of each other first. This way the information and understanding will be richer.

This process give you: control, you help frame the discussion; ownership, multiple voices can be involved; and makes not doing all the work look good, nothing like structured engagement to impress.

REMEMBER: Don’t hesitate to make guesses and be creative and encourage this with your participants, sort it out later.

It is important to have something tangible to talk about or to record on. When you are merging different perspectives, writing ideas down helps someone feel heard and gives a voice to the group. I’ve created a worksheet that people are free to use: Muti-Perspective Worksheet PDF