%% #🗺️ %% [[Organization Development MOC]] --- # Dialogic OD Activities & Exercises ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Sep 29, 2021</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Nov 25, 2022</small> 🏷️[[Organization Development MOC|OD]], [[Appreciative Inquiry]], [[Action Research]], [[Design Thinking]], [[MOCs/Interests/Change|Change]] ## Appreciative Inquiry - [[Notice the positive]] - look for what is working/going well and share a best practice story - [[positive framing]] - focus attention on the positives of where we want to go and what we want more of - [[generative questions]] - examples of questions that deepen understanding, stimulate creative thinking and create momentum ## Appreciative Inquiry Summit #### Discovery Phase - [[Appreciative Interviews]] - 1:1 interviews organized around topics of the meeting - [[Who are We at our Best]] - small group recollection of highlight stories and best practices discovered during interviews - [[Positive Core Map]] - large group process to illustrate all the strengths, resources, competencies, hopes, relationships, etc. of the organization - [[Continuity Search]] - large group process to create organization, industry and global time lines to identify factors that have sustained the organization over time and are desirable in the future #### Dream Phase - [[Sharing of Dreams]] - small group discussions of dreams collected during interviews - [[Enlivening the Dreams]] - small groups discuss specific, tangible examples of their dream and create metaphorical presentations - [[Enacting the Dreams]] - group presentations of dramatic dream enactments to the large group #### Design Phase - [[Creation of the Organization Design Architecture]] - large group identifies organization design architecture best suited to their business/industry - [[Selection of High Impact Organization Design Elements]] - large group draws on interviews and dreams to select high impact design elements - [[Crafting of Provocative Propositions for each Design Element]] - small groups draft provocative propositions (design statements) incorporating the positive change core into the high impact design elements. #### Destiny or Deploy Phase - [[Generation of Possible Actions]] - small groups brainstorm possible actions and share with the large group - [[Selection of Inspired Actions]] - individuals publicly declare their intention for action and specify cooperation and support needed - [[Emergent Task Groups Form]] - open space groups meet to plan next steps for cooperation and task achievement. - [[Continuity Scan]] - timeline of the organization with organization's strengths and core capabilities - What are all the qualities of your organization, the processes, systems, products, services, or general ways of doing things that have contributed to your success in the past? Of these, which must be maintained to assure continued success as we move forward? ## Action Research - [[12 action research steps]] --- ## Sources Notes on and highlights from research and reading material I've been studying on this subject. - [[The Appreciative Inquiry Summit - Whitney & Cooperrider 2015]] - [[Conversations Worth Having - Stavros & Torres 2018]]