Accelerate Your Learning

Learning Plan Template

Questions to Ask - see page 51

Performance

Root Causes

History of Change

Questions About the Present - see page 52

Vision and Strategy

People

Processes

Land Mines

Early Wins

Questions About the Future - see page 53

Challenges and Opportunities

Barriers and Resources

Culture

Structured Learning

Ask essentially the same five questions:

1. What are the three most important things about ____ that we need to preserve and why?
2. What are the three most important things to change and why?
3. What are the three must things you are most hopeful that I do as ____?
4. What are the things you are concerned as ____ that I might do?
5. What advice do you have for me?

Other questions - see page 59

1. What are the biggest challenges the organization is facing (or will face in the near future)?
2. Why is the organization facing (or going to face) these challenges?
3. What are the most promising unexploited opportunities for growth?
4. What would need to happen for the organization to exploit the potential of these opportunities?
5. If you were me, what would you focus attention on?