Action Inquiry at work
Your personal journey into Action Inquiry starts with you becoming aware of and making explicit your intentions, purposes, vision, strategies, assumptions and judgements in the context of your present role and desired future.
A second level of personal Action Inquiry then simultaneously invites you to test and validate, and where necessary redefine, the appropriateness of your intentions, assumptions and plans as they unfold and as the impact and outcomes of your actions become evident.
In parallel, the process of making explicit, testing, redefining and modifying your individual action necessarily involves inquiring collaboratively with others.
Collaborative Action Inquiry fosters increasingly shared purpose, vision and action within the teams and other levels of groups you participate to within the organisation. Modifying current strategies and plans that are shown to contradict corporate purposes also increases the overall integrity and legitimacy of the organisation and the commitment of its members.
The power of Action Inquiry is in its potential, through productive experiments and high levels of collaborative engagement and mutual influencing, to link personal quality improvement with improving the quality of the immediate decision-making and conversational interactions you are engaged in with others, as well as quality improvement longer term in the wider organisation.
Further Action Inquiry resources
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Action Inquiry case study
View a detailed illustration of Action Inquiry at work.
Action Inquiry groups
This mode of developing Action Inquiry capability across organisations is core to Harthill’s transformational practice. Find out more about Action Inquiry Groups.
