Generative dialogue

Conversations

Dialogue

Dialogue

Creates trust

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APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

• Grounded: Building on the best of the current reality
• Daring: Boldly stretching the status quo
• Positive: Reflecting what we want to move toward, not away from
• Palpable: Sensing the future in the present, as if it was already happening, and
• Participatory: Involving all relevant stakeholders

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Shift

Conditions

• Invested in Generative Dialogue
• Setting a Common Goal
• Focusing the Work
• Collaborating to identify priorities
• Effective Teams

Shift

• Focused conversations
• Listening deeply
• Supportive culture
• Gathering Evidence of Learning
• Coherence

Shift

Learning

• Explore possiblities
• Create opportunites for curiosity
• Investigate through inquiry
• Gather evidence
• Reflect
• Identify next steps

Impossible to return to our current way of thinking or behaving

There are no good answers, only good questions.

My story.

Shifts

Taking the plunge

Navigating the Waters

Building Bridges

Focused vision

My foundation