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Leadership Metaphor Explorer™: Framing Questions for Facilitating Leadership Metaphor Explorer™

Monday, May 19, 2008

Framing Questions for Facilitating Leadership Metaphor Explorer™

Here are steps and framing questions to use with the Leadership Metaphor Explorer™ Card Deck. This process can be adapted to any size group, for pairs of people, or for individual reflection.

First choose a framing topic or question.
"Pick a card that says something about ... "
For example:

  • Leadership in my organization ... or community, or team.
  • How do I myself practice leadership? Past, present, and future (3 cards)?
  • What does leadership look like around here?
  • What do I want leadership to look like?
  • The kind of leadership we need for the challenges we face.
  • This is us at our best.
  • This is us at our worst.
  • This is what we looked like during the crisis last week.
  • These are our competitors.
  • These are our clients or customers.
  • This is the kind of talent we have in this organization.
  • This is the kind of talent we need in this organization.
  • This is me when I was younger.
  • This is me now.
  • This is me next year.
Next, talk about your choices using one or more framing questions.
Questions to talk about include:
  • Why did you pick this card? Find out why others picked the cards they did.
  • What are the strengths in this way of leadership? What are the weaknesses?
  • What is the story? Tell the story behind the card.
  • How do the cards connect or fit with one another? How do they help or hurt each other?
  • What cards are more mature ways of leadership? Which are less mature? Why?
  • Where do we have conflict? Explain the conflict using the metaphors.
  • Which way would we like to be? What are we missing?
  • What is the right combination of cards for our challenge? In what order?
Finally, reflect on what you have learned from the metaphors, and what steps you might take.
  • What did we learn? What was surprising? What did we already know?
  • What was this experience like emotionally?
  • What is the wisdom expressed here?
  • What new or changed beliefs about leadership does this suggest? Does this change how you define leadership?
  • How does this suggest a different way of doing things?

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