APPRECIATIVE

INQUIRY
• The co-evolutionary, co-operative
search for the best in people, their
organizations and the world around
them.
• Involves the art and science of asking
questions that strengthen a systems
capacity to apprehend, anticipate, and
heighten positive potential.
• Focuses on the speed of imagination and innovation.
Instead of the negative, critical, and spiraling
diagnosis commonly used in our organizations, there
is discovery, dream, design, and destiny.
• i. This approach skips the overused “problem
solving” and focuses on new ides to organize. Focus
is on “what works”, the positive core, and what
people really care about.
• AI questions are used in the steps: discover, dream,
design, and destiny
 8. SWOT Analysis
STRENGTHS
WEAKNESSES
OPPORTUNITIES
THREATS
• Used to identify positive and negative factors
within organizations, communities, and to
broader society that promote or inhibit
successful implementation of social services
and the social change efforts.

• Used as a preliminary resource in assessing

strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and
threats in a community/organization.
SWOT ANALYSIS
• STRENGTH
• WEAKNESSES
• OPPORTUNITIES
• TREATS
STEPS IN SWOT ANALYSIS
• Scan the internal and external environment – what
social factors have influence on my project?
• Do the internal and external analysis – what social
factors are strengths and which are weakness?
STEPS IN SWOT ANALYSIS
• Construct the SWOT matrix – do a simple quadrant
constructed from SWOT acronyms and in each
quadrant place each of already identified factors.
• Define SWOT strategies – at the end of the process,
you need to expect future directions for next
actions.
• Determine 4 strategies based on the combination
of the quadrants (S-O, W-O, S-T,W-T)