Appreciative Inquiry and SWOT
Appreciative Inquiry and SWOT
MacCoy, D. J. (2014). Appreciative inquiry and evaluation – Getting to what works. The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 29(2), 104–127.
Nursing Leadership: Present and Future Needs | Transcript.
Appreciative Inquiry: Core Concepts | Transcript.
Review the section on the dream stage of appreciative inquiry.
Vila Health: Comparing AI and SWOT | Transcript.
This media simulation walks you through a scenario within the Vila Health system that will enable you to analyze a situation in a care setting through both AI and SWOT lenses.
Vila Health: Appreciative Inquiry or SWOT? | Transcript.
This media piece presents various brief scenarios in which either appreciative inquiry or SWOT is the more appropriate approach.
TOWS Analysis in Action: Going Beyond the SWOT Analysis | Transcript.
This media piece will help you to gain a better understanding of the considerations, categorizations, and applications of SWOT analyses.
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Strategic Planning
Deisher, M. (2013). A systems change: Leading the way to meeting health needs. Journal of Hand Therapy, 26(3), 282–285, 286.
This article illustrates how strategic planning has been used to implement a new program in a clinic.
Leadership Characteristics and Skills
Any of the following resources are useful in analyzing leadership characteristics and skills:
Grossman, S. C., & Valiga, T. M. (2012). The new leadership challenge: Creating the future of nursing. Philadelphia, PA: F. A. Davis Company.
Chapter 2, “The World and New Leadership: Changing our Thinking About Leadership.”
This chapter may help you with an analysis of the leadership characteristics and skills most desired in a person leading potential performance improvement projects.
American College of Healthcare Executives. (2016). ACHE healthcare executive 2016 competencies assessment tool [PDF]. Retrieved from http://www.ache.org/pdf/nonsecure/careers/competencies_booklet.pdf
Competency areas A–C (including all sub-points as laid out in the ACHE self-assessment) in the Communication and Relationship Management theme.
Competency areas A–D (all sub-points as laid out in the ACHE self-assessment) in the Leadership theme.
American Organization of Nurse Executives. (2015). Nurse executive competencies [PDF]. Retrieved from http://www.aone.org/resources/nec.pdf
Competency areas A–G in section 1, the Communication and Relationship Building theme.
Competency areas A–E in section 3, the Leadership theme.
Assessment Instructions
Note: You will use the results of this analysis to develop a strategic plan in Assessment 2.
Preparation
You have been asked to conduct an analysis of your care setting that will result in two potential pathways toward a strategic plan to improve health care quality and safety in your organization, department, team, community project, or other care setting. To accomplish this, you will take two approaches to the analysis:
Complete the discovery and dream phases of an appreciative inquiry (AI) project.
Conduct a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis.
To help ensure that your analysis is well-received, the requester has suggested that you:
Present your analysis results in four parts:
Part 1: Appreciative Inquiry Discovery and Dream.
Part 2: SWOT Analysis.
Part 3: Comparison of Approaches.
