facilitation of change and innovation
facilitative questions for change and innovation decision-making
These Facilitative Questions have been designed by Sharon Drew Morgen specifically to help you begin the process of change and innovation decision-making.
This modern Facilitative approach is central to Sharon Drew Morgen's concepts, which can be applied to all sorts of personal and organizational innovation and change situations.
Specifically, this process sits within the Morgen Buying Facilitation Method® whose method employs Facilitative Questions that can be used to support decision-making for change and innovation.
Ask yourself and answer these questions to determine if you are ready to make a change, or ready to become an innovator. Often as innovators we are not always aware of when it's time to change, what to change, if to change, or how to change. Here are some Facilitative Questions that will help you determine how to make sense of any issues around change that you have been pondering.
Print and use this free template to start your innovation and change decision-making process, or to help others with these challenges.
innovation and change - decision-making facilitation template
| Change and Innovation Template |
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| 1.1 Take a look around your environment (home, family, business, personal). What issues do you see ongoing that you have not managed yet? | |
| 1.2 What has stopped you from managing them until now? | |
| 2.1 What would you need to see/hear/feel to recognize when it was time to do something different? | |
| 3.1 What criteria do you use to decide what aspects of the situation need to be changed? | |
| 3.2 Which aspects should stay the same? | |
| 3.3 What is the difference between the two? | |
| 3.4 And how will you know if you've chosen the appropriate elements for each? | |
| 4.1 How will you decide who would need to be brought into the 'change' conversation to ensure you have buy-in from interested parties? | |
| 4.2 How do you plan on bringing them into the decisions you need to make? | |
| 4.3 How will you know that they are indeed supportive of your change issues? | |
| 4.4 How will you know if they are not supportive? | |
| 4.5 How will you manage the situation if they believe they will be harmed by the change? | |
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5.1 How will you and your decision partners determine all of the aspects that need to be managed? |
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| 5.2 What elements of the situation need to be shifted first? | |
| 5.3 What elements of the situation need to be shifted second? | |
| 5.4 How will you handle differences of opinion? | |
| 6.1 How will you monitor your process? | |
| 6.2 How will you know if/when you are going off course and need additional support (possibly from the outside)? | |
| 6.3 How will you and your decision partners help you in your monitoring? | |
| 7.1 What will success look like? | |
| 7.2 How can you be sure that the problem will remain solved over time? | |
| 8.1 What does follow up and follow through
look like? © Sharon Drew Morgen, template/design Alan Chapman 2004-2009 |
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If you attempt change of any sort before addressing these issues you might find that you are building on sand. When you complete this template by answering these questions you will have a better platform for change and innovation. How exactly you proceed from here depends on the situation.
This is an example of how Facilitative Questioning helps to approach change in a pivotal way.
The concepts and principles are transferable to a wide variety of situations, especially the realization of large scale organizational change and strategy.
See also the excellent Reflective Diary template tool produced in collaboration with Sharon Drew, available in MSWord and pdf versions:
reflective diary template - Sharon Drew Morgen edition (MSWord)
reflective diary template - Sharon Drew Morgen edition (pdf)
If you want help with organizational change using Sharon Drew Morgen's innovation facilitation concepts visit Sharon Drew Morgen's website newsalesparadigm.com. If you are interested in using these concepts within your own systems, tools, products, services or training and development, contact Sharon Drew Morgen via her website.
Buying Facilitation® is a trademark of Sharon Drew Morgen.
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© questions and introduction Sharon Drew Morgen 2004-08, template design, edit and contextual material Alan Chapman 2004-2009