Great Ideas! 2013 Idea Lab Making Ideas Happen: A Strengths-Based Learning Experience Don’t let your flash of brilliance fade away. Learn by doing in this session by taking the Appreciative Inquiry and G.R.O.W. methods out for a spin to better refine your great idea and articulate next steps to make it happen. Harness the support of your colleagues and community to bring your idea to life, and walk away with a plan to move your idea forward despite the resistance you might face.

1. Making Ideas Happen
A Strengths-Based Learning Experience
March 11, 2013
3:15 pm – 4:30 pm
Hub tag: #ideas13 LO2
Ann Oliveri FASAE CAE
Making-Ideas-Happen.com

2. Making Ideas Happen
i de a /īˈdēə Noun
/
1. A thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action.
2. A concept or mental impression.
Synonyms: notion, thought, concept, opinion, view

3. Making Ideas Happen
What Can We Expect From Each Other?
• Agree to support mutual learning and sharing
• Promise to play well with others—to have fun
• Any you want to add?

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What Gets In Your Way?

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What Works For You?

6. Making Ideas Happen
What Is Coming Up for You?

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What Do You Want?
+ For yourself? + For those you love?
+ For your organization? + For your team?
+ For those you serve? + For the world?
What Does Your Heart Say?

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Principles of Appreciative Inquiry
If you study problems, you get problems.
If you study possibilities, you get possibilities
The questions we ask determine what we find.

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Ap-pre’ci-ate, v., 1. valuing…the best in people or the world around
us; affirming past and present strengths, successes, and potentials
Synonyms: VALUING, PRIZING, ESTEEMING, HONORING.
In-quire’ (kwir), v., 1. the act of exploration and discovery. 2. To ask
questions; to be open to seeing new potentials and possibilities.
Synonyms: DISCOVERY, SEARCH, SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATION

10. Principle #1 We Move in the Direction of What We Study

11. Principle # 2 The Questions We Ask Determine What We Find
• What behavior patterns make you more effective?
I want to be a better listener.
• What thought patterns make you more efficient?
I want to be more creative.
• What beliefs empower your success?
I want to live my values at work.
• What attitudes sustain your efforts?
I want to be more compassionate.
• What motivations spur action and sustain energy?
I want to work for a cause I believe in.

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What is the Positive Difference You Want to Make?
• Desired Does it describe a preferred future?
• Inclusive Is it a shared image of the future?
• Believable Does it reach for greater possibilities?
Stretch
• Collaborative Does it rely on others to achieve?
• Inviting Is creativity required to realize it?

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G.R.O.W. Your Capacity for Change
The biggest obstacle in performance isn’t ―not knowing what to do;‖
it’s not doing what we know.
It’s not so much about knowledge acquisition
as it is about knowledge execution.

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The Inner Game and the G.R.O.W. Process

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Goal What do you want to accomplish?
Reality What is happening now?
Options What else could you try?
What’s Do any of these options interest you
Next? enough to act?

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Have Fun! Practice using
G.R.O.W. on a Dream Goal or
your Great Idea!

17. YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED
Be sure to hand in your postcard so I can mail it back to you.
Thank you!
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18. Here’s how to get in touch
Ann Oliveri FASAE CAE
Chief Effectiveness Officer
Making Ideas Happen Coaching and Consulting
ann@making-ideas-happen.com
301.654.0334 Land
240.3837769 Cell
301.979.9966 Skype
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