#💡 #🟠 # generative questions ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Oct 02, 2021</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Jan 02, 2023</small> 🏷️ [[Appreciative Inquiry]] - Generative questions open you to new perspectives, reveal new information and stimulate creativity and innovation. - deepen understanding and strengthen relationships - stimulate creative thinking, inspire hope, and create momentum ##### Examples of Generative Questions What Your Question Can Do | Examples ---- | ---- Elicit info, stories, ideas and perspectives | What is working? Tap experience | You've done this before. What worked well for you? Allow for strengths | How might you contribute to the success? Surface best practices | What best practices are you familiar with? Move toward solutions or info that informs possible solutions | What are others doing? Identify new ways of thinking and new opportunities | As you think about others, what do they have that we need? Inform what you might do | What can we do that would allow for the result we want? Make room for new knowledge/creativity | Forget how we've done it in the past. If you were designing it today, what would you do? Deepen connections | How do you see it? What's important to you? Strengthen relationships | Can you say more about what you mean? What are possible opportunities you are seeking? Engage those on sidelines | What do you think, X? Generage understanding | Can you say more about what you are thinking? Help me understand your perspective. ## Sources [[Conversations Worth Having - Stavros & Torres 2018]]