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Organization Development  LIKES-CONCERNS-WISHES  

 

The "Likes-Concerns-Wishes" process provides a way for a group to express a fuller range of ideas than in the standard brainstorming process. The facilitator needs to actively encourage participants to offer ideas in each category.

1. What is your overall satisfaction with the life and work of the organization?

VERY LOW                                                                                                            VERY HIGH

SATISFACTION                                                                                                 SATISFACTION

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2. Offer your thoughts about the organization’s functioning using the categories below. Use a brainstorming style.

LIKES

What you like/affirm about the organization’s work and life.

CONCERNS

Your concerns about the organization’s life and work.

WISHES

Your wishes about what the organization might do to improve its work and life.

 

 

 

 

 

    

3. Circle the items, in each category, that you see as most important to the long term health of the organization.

4. Put a check mark next to the items that could be most easily addressed.

© Robert A. Gallagher, 1992 
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