Asking for a Better Future

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“The solution doesn’t care how the problem came to be”

1. Honoring the problem without “asking into it”
2. Solution focus – Who dat?
3. Answer space – Questions influence their answers
4. What does that mean for retrospectives?

The Questions

1. “What for?” instead of “Why?”
2. Soften fixed statements with “until now” or “right now”

Set the Stage

1. “Positive and True”¹⁰

Gather Data and Generate Insight

1. “When you’ve reached your goal, what does that look like?” or “What would you like to have happen?”
2. “And what instead?”
3. “What difference will it make?”
4. “And what else?”
5. Silence
6. Fit for a movie script
7. “In the here and now: When is the world already like in the better future (at least a little bit)?”
8. “What should stay the way it is now?”¹³

Decide What to Do

1. “And what needs to happen for this to happen?”¹⁴

Closing the Retrospective

1. “How confident are you …?”

Just as important: Listening!

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Appendix aka even more SF

1. Attitudes and Principles¹⁷