Discovery & Action Dialogue (DAD)
State the purpose of the initiative being discussed and the DAD and invite brief round-robin introductions.
How to run it
- State the purpose of the initiative being discussed and the DAD and invite brief round-robin introductions. 5 min.
- Ask your recorder to recap insights, action ideas, and who else needs to be included. 5 min.
- Above: Button from a Canadian infection-control project that employed DADs extensively.
- Engage frontline people in finding solutions to thorny challenges
- Discover tacit and latent behaviors and practices that are positively deviant from the norm
- Inspire rather than compel behaviors that solve complex problems
- Generate changes that are sustained because they are discovered and invented by the people doing the work, rather than imported and imposed
- State the purpose of the initiative being discussed and the DAD and invite brief round-robin introductions.
- CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.
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State the purpose of the initiative being discussed and the DAD and invite brief round-robin introductions. 5 min.
Ask your recorder to recap insights, action ideas, and who else needs to be included. 5 min.
State the purpose of the initiative being discussed and the DAD and invite brief round-robin introductions.
CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Discovery & Action Dialogue (DAD). Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: State the purpose of the initiative being discussed and the DAD and invite brief round-robin introductions. 5 min.; Ask your recorder to recap insights, action ideas, and who else needs to be included. 5 min.; State the purpose of the initiative being discussed and the DAD and invite brief round-robin introductions.; CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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