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Problem solving • clients • impact

🧭 Consultancy

Train the core consulting cycle: clarify the problem, structure it, form and test hypotheses, analyse evidence, manage stakeholders, communicate recommendations and support implementation.

Problem framingIssue treesHypothesesAnalysisStakeholdersStoryliningChangeEthics
What this arena develops

Learning map.

✓ Clarifying the client problem and desired outcome
✓ Structuring ambiguous problems into workable components
✓ Hypothesis-led investigation and prioritisation
✓ Evidence quality, analysis and triangulation
✓ Client discovery and expectation management
✓ Stakeholder mapping, communication and influence
✓ Synthesising insight into clear recommendations
✓ Implementation, change, risk and benefits tracking
✓ Professional judgement, scope, confidentiality and escalation
✓ Problem statement
✓ Issue tree
✓ MECE
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Research basis

Built from real practice.

The consultancy arena was designed from established consulting and project/stakeholder capability material. The games paraphrase the underlying practices rather than copying source text.

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