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Appreciative framing in team discourse
To balance attention to problems with attention to what is working. When discussing team performance or reviewing work, deliberately include appreciative questions alongside problem-focused ones: • Before discussing what went wrong, ask what went well • When reviewing a period… An ongoing team scaffold (team practice), run continuous, not as a one-off session.
Practical
- Time
- 5-90 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, dialogic-encounter, cognitive-reframing
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (Continuous)
Instructions
- Where
- idg.thomasjordan.se/idg-team-scaffolds-webapp.html — Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
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Origin
Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI] (IDG for Teams handbook — team scaffold) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)
In this directory via Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Team leader role (Jordan): Ask appreciative questions regularly, especially when the team is struggling. Model noticing and naming what is working.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25