The competence triangle has been developed with inspiration from NTNU.

The purpose of this tool is to give an overview of the team’s overall competencies by mapping each team member’s individual competencies.

Start with this exercise before solving the specific tasks. Distribute a flip chart sheet and pens to each group. Ask the group to draw a large triangle on the flip chart and name the three sides ‘Theoretical Skills (TS), ‘Practical Experience (PE)’ and ‘Personal Competencies (PC)’.

Every team member needs to fill in his or her own TS, PK and PE post-it notes. There must be at least three post-it notes from each member in each of the categories. Allow approximately 10 minutes for this part of the exercise. The work should be done individually and in silence. Ask each team member to write his or her initials on the post-it notes.

Afterwards, all the post-it notes are placed on the three sides of the triangle, and the team members then share one post-it per category in turns and go further into elaborating on the specific examples. A round like this is repeated 3 times, so that all the team members are able to explain their post-it notes further. Allow approximately 30-45 minutes for this part of the exercise.

After this, the team should take a photo of the team’s total competence triangle. Finally, the team talks about the team’s collective competencies and how they can be used to solve specific, future tasks in the best possible way.