Strategic Planning Outline

Developing your organization’s next strategic plan with Appreciative Inquiry will provide executives, executive teams, and planning committees an overview of how Appreciative Inquiry works and answer key questions:

• How is Appreciative Inquiry different from other planning processes?
• What resources does planning with Appreciative Inquiry require?
• Who gets involved and how?
• How long does it take?
• What is an Appreciative Inquiry “Summit”? Is it necessary and how does my organization host one?
• How do I write a strategic plan using Appreciative Inquiry?

Outline:

1. How is Appreciative Inquiry different from other planning processes?
   • Strengths-Based vs. Deficit-Based
   • The Wholeness Principle
   • Broad directions vs. Narrow objectives
   • The role of data
2. Elements of an Appreciative Inquiry Strategic Planning process
   • Get Ready!
     1. Creating a Core Team
     2. Introducing Ai to your organization
   • Get Set!
     1. Pre-Summit Community Interviews
     2. The Appreciative Inquiry Summit
     3. Writing the Strategic Plan
   • Go!
     1. Implementing the Plan
     2. Building an Appreciative Culture