02 Feb Is it a participative process?

Unit 4 discussion

DQ1 Strategic Planning Models and Setting Goals

When an analysis of an organization’s internal and external environments uncovers an area that needs to be addressed, it can be difficult to gain traction for planning improvement. Strategic planning models can help frame and structure the creation of short-, mid-, and long-term goals and create a road map toward achieving them.

For this discussion, you will apply one of the strategic planning models to create goals and outcomes to address the issue for improvement that you identified with your SWOT analysis in your Unit 3 assignment. In your response address the following:

A brief explanation of the strategic planning model you have chosen and why you believe it will be a good fit to address the issue identified in your SWOT analysis.

You may wish to call out where goal setting and improvement planning occurs within the model you chose.

Create one just-in-time goal that can be applied immediately to some aspect of the issue you have identified.

Briefly explain how achieving this goal is realistic and will begin addressing some aspect of the issue in the immediate future.

Create one mid-term goal (six months to five years to achieve) that will result in an improvement related to the issue you have identified.

Briefly explain how achieving this goal is realistic within the time frame and will lead to improvements.

Create one long-term goal (five or more years to achieve) that will result in an improvement related to the issue you have identified.

Briefly explain how achieving this goal is realistic within the time frame and will lead to improvements.

Briefly reflect on your experience applying the model you chose to set your goals.

What about the model helped you conceive and structure your goals?

What about the model proved challenging or unhelpful for your goal setting?

Response Guidelines

Review the responses of your peers and select one peer to whom you wish to respond. In your response address at least one of the following:

Compare your experience with setting goals to that of you peer.

Do you have any suggestions to help your peer navigate the complexities of setting goals?

Comment on the relevance and reality of the goals your peer set.

How relevant are the goals to the issue that your peer is trying to improve?

How realistic do you think you peer’s goals are within the time frame they are proposing?

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

DQ2 Design the Path to Your Dream: The Third Stage of AI

Through the discovery and dream stages of appreciative inquiry, you have discovered the positive core of your organization, department, or community project and dreamed a future to which it should be aspiring. The next step is to design the path to take your organization to that dream. One way to design the path is by creating provocative propositions: statements that act as goals or aspirational guidelines that bridge the gap between the present of the discovery stage and the future of the dream stage.

For this discussion, complete the following:

Create two provocative propositions (statements that will help you in working toward constructing an ideal reality for your care setting) that each address different aspects of your affirmative improvement goals.

Explain how each provocative proposition will help you to bridge the gap between what currently is within your organization, department, community project, et cetera, and your dream of what might be.

Reflect on how setting goals through provocative propositions differs from goal setting in the strategic planning model you used in this unit’s first discussion.

Response Guidelines

Review the responses of your peers and select one peer to whom you wish to respond. In your response address the following:

Offer a critique of one of your peer’s provocative propositions utilizing the following criteria (Cooperrider, Whitney, & Stavros, 2008):

Is it provocative? Does it stretch, challenge, or interrupt the status quo?

Is it grounded? Are examples available that illustrate the ideal as a real possibility? Is it grounded in the organization’s collective history?

Is it desired? Do you want it as a preferred future?

Is it stated in affirmative and bold terms?

Is it a participative process?

Reference

Cooperrider, D. L., Whitney, D., & Stavros, J. M. (2008). The appreciative inquiry handbook: For leaders of change. Brunswick, OH: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

Appreciative Inquiry.

Generic Processes of Appreciative Inquiry.

Appreciative Inquiry: Core Concepts | Transcript.