Jacob Fisker has a method called the reverse fishbone diagram.
You draw a horizontal line and that is the action.
Above the line you draw a diagonal forward slanted line for each positive first order effect of taking that action and below you do the same for negative effects.
On those initial branches, you branch off second order effects, up or down pointed depending on their valence until you have a sketch roughly resembling a fish skeleton with as many orders of effects as you can come up with.
You then count the upward and downward lines and compare how the effects serve other goals you have to determine if this is a good action to continue. Of course, how you weight each effect matters, so you can try to take that into account maybe by bolding important effects.
I prefer this method because it is closer to comprehensive by including more consequences in a slightly more elegant manner than the mind map approach.
I’m assuming there is a goal evaluation lesson coming up, so I won’t comment on confusing means/actions with ends/goals.
Jacob Fisker has a method called the reverse fishbone diagram.
You draw a horizontal line and that is the action.
Above the line you draw a diagonal forward slanted line for each positive first order effect of taking that action and below you do the same for negative effects.
On those initial branches, you branch off second order effects, up or down pointed depending on their valence until you have a sketch roughly resembling a fish skeleton with as many orders of effects as you can come up with.
You then count the upward and downward lines and compare how the effects serve other goals you have to determine if this is a good action to continue. Of course, how you weight each effect matters, so you can try to take that into account maybe by bolding important effects.
I prefer this method because it is closer to comprehensive by including more consequences in a slightly more elegant manner than the mind map approach.
I’m assuming there is a goal evaluation lesson coming up, so I won’t comment on confusing means/actions with ends/goals.