c. Questions of the Study

C. The Questions of this Study:

To employ the 4-D Appreciate Inquiry approach in this study the evaluator chose nine

questions to illuminate the four phases of the model. Some of the projects answered some of the

questions in combination with the other questions, which appears in the interview section as

fewer (or shorter) responses. However, sufficient data was provided to assess each of the phases

for each of the projects. There were times when the respondents gave answers that moved

between and combined the different phases of the model. This was not a significant concern or

threat to the analysis. To deal with this issue, the evaluator selected the concepts, phrases, and

words from the interview that most closely fitted a particular phase of the model and inserted

them into that phase during the analysis. The average time the project staff spent answering the

questions was approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes:

Question Phase

Discovery

1. (a). How did this project come about? (b). Why was it necessary? (Community need/Organizational and Cultural Probe)

2. To accomplish your work, how does your project draw upon the best of what has been or is in your organization and community? Discovery

(Positive Core Probe of the Organization and Community)

3. (a). Why did you get involved and what makes you stay? (b). What is important about what you do and what do love most about the work?

4. When your organization has been operating at its best what have been the best, most inspiring, and creative moments and accomplishments of your project? Discovery

(Positive Core Probe of the Organizational and Staff)

Discovery

Exploring Life Giving Forces (LGFs) of the Organization

5. (a). Thinking big, outside the circle/box, what is the dream of the organization (What might be)?

(b). How might this come about and how would you communicate this dream to others?

7. What do you appreciate most about those that they work with and what do they appreciate most about you?

6. (a). What are some of the strengths, skills, and gifts of the people in the organization?

(b) What are the strengths of the organization? (c) What are some of the strengths and gifts of the community?

7) (a) What do you feel are the most important strategies and practices of your project? (b) How do they serve to empower the community? (c) What has your community appreciated most about what you do?

8. What positive images do you and your organization envision for the future of your work and the people you serve?

9. (a). What commitments do you and your organization have to make sure you are on the right path that will lead to positive changes in the organization and your community? Dream

(What Might Be Probe: Hopes, Dreams, Thinking big)

Dream

(What Might Be Probe: Hopes, Dreams, thinking big, Exploring working relationships)

Design.

(What Should Be; Transforming

Systems, Structures, Strategies,

Processes, and Images)

Design

(What Should Be, Transforming Systems, Structures, Strategies, Processes, and Images)

Destiny (What Will Be: what are the personal and organizational commitments that will make changes in the organization happen)

Destiny

(What Will Be: what are the personal and organizational commitments that will make changes in the organization happen)