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Intervention and Leadership
Figure 3
Diagnostic Questions for the Political Dimension in Groups:
Some Examples
1.
Subgroups and Interests
-Who are the competing factions and what are their stakes? How do they
define success?
- How closed or permeable are their boundaries?
- Who or what supports this subgroup?
- Are they committed to engagement or being bystanders
2.
Values, Differences and Conflict
- What are their values and what do these lead them to hold onto?
- What values or norms might be challenged here?
- Who has the most to gain or lose? Around what?
- Where are the allies for action? (Across boundaries)
- What will they not compromise on? Why? What do they most fear losing?
3.
Responsibility and Influence
- How committed and disciplined are they around this challenge?
- How concentrated or dispersed is authority and activity?
- Do they identify and accept their part of the problem?
- How free are members of a subgroup to act independent of the
authority structure?
4.
Capacity to Learn and Adapt
- Do they test their own values and assumptions?
- What prior change experience have they had?
- What risks and potential losses will they accept?
- Is it possible to challenge the senior representative? With what impact?
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