Dialogue Interview
What is Dialogue Interview about ?
Dialogue interviews....
• provide data on the participants’ current challenges, questions, and expectations or on the organizational current challenges
• create awareness among participants or within an organization about the upcoming process and how it might serve their needs and intentions
• increase the level of trust between facilitators and participants that helps to create a generative field of connections
• may help the participants to find partners for a project
Audience
Is participant experience relevant for Dialogue Interview ?
Requirements
Not specifically
Run Through
a) Define/revise questions to adjust to the specific context and purpose.
b) Schedule interviews.
c) If the interview will be conducted face-to-face, find a quiet space.
d) Get information about the interviewee and her or his organization.
e) If several interviewers will conduct the interview, agree on roles (primary interviewer, note taking).
Material for
Use the interview guideline (questionnaire), but feel free to deviate when necessary.
Use a paper and pen to take notes. Sometimes use a tape recorder.
INTERVIEW GUIDELINES/SAMPLE QUESTIONNAIRE:
1. When have you faced significant new challenges in your professional life, and what helped you cope with them?
2. Describe your best team experiences. How do they differ from your other team experiences?
3. What are the top three challenges you currently face?
4. Who are your most important stakeholders?
5. On the basis of what outcomes will your performance be considered a success or a failure - and by when?
6. In order to be successful in your current leadership role, what do you need to let go of and what do you need to learn? What capabilities do you need to develop?
7. How will you develop your team? What do you need from your team, and what does your team need from you?
8. Nine to twelve months from now, what criteria will you use to assess whether you were successful?
9. Now reflect on our conversation and listen to yourself: what important question comes up for you now that you take out of this conversation and into your forward journey?
