Questions to be Answered This Weekend

4. Describe the goals of your intervention, both for your clients as individuals and for the organization? What do you hope to accomplish? How did you reach this conclusion (aspirations versus client readiness versus prevailing conditions, resources, etc.?

5. Describe the method(s)/process(es) you will use to intervene. What are the major steps you plan to take? Whom will you involve and when and how? What makes you think that this approach fits this organization's needs better than any other at this time? What evidence is there in what you have read to support this approach?

6. What are your hunches about what will learn and what kinds of results you think are achievable. For example, if you are doing an interview feedback program, what are your first guesses based on your initial conversations with your clients thus far, about the kinds of themes that will surface in the data. What major difficulties, if any, do you anticipate? How might you deal with them were they to arise?

7. What is the contract you have with your client regarding the intervention? Specifically, what role do you expect your client to play? What resources are you asking for? What can you offer in return? What risks are involved for you or your client and how will you manage them?

8. How will you evaluate your success? From whom will you obtain feedback? How will you measure your impact on the client system? How will you measure progress along the way? How will you know when it is time to change your strategy or abandon the effort altogether?

9. What are your personal learning goals for this project? How will you know if you have achieved them?