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# 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
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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]]