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For information and guidance on how to undertake an ARIES analysis, see the ARIES Analysis and Tools page.
The Issue
Outline, perhaps a page or so, of the business/organizational context and a specific incident/event/episode that illustrates the issue of concern
Attending: The Observation and Inference Table
Observations (what’s directly discernable)
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Possible Inferences (Interpretations)
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Reflecting: the Reflection Matrix
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Hidden Assumptions
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Hidden Interests
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Hidden Feelings
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Hidden Knowledge
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Your assessment of what the stakeholder might take as give
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Your assessment of what might be important to the stakeholder; what they value or want to protec
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Your assessment of what the stakeholder might be feeling but not saying
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Your assessment of what the stakeholder might know but have not declared
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Stakeholder 1
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Hidden Assumptions
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Hidden Interests
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Hidden Feelings
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Hidden Knowledge
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Your assessment of what the stakeholder might take as given
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Your assessment of what might be important to the stakeholder; what they value or want to protect
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Your assessment of what the stakeholder might be feeling but not saying
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Your assessment of what the stakeholder might know but have not declared
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Stakeholder 2
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Hidden Assumptions
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Hidden Interests
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Hidden Feelings
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Hidden Knowledge
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Your assessment of what the stakeholder might take as given
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Your assessment of what might be important to the stakeholder; what they value or want to protect
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Your assessment of what the stakeholder might be feeling but not saying
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Your assessment of what the stakeholder might know but have not declared
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Stakeholder (n)
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Hidden Assumptions
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Hidden Interests
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Hidden Feelings
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Hidden Knowledge
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Your assessment of what the stakeholder might take as given
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Your assessment of what might be important to the stakeholder; what they value or want to protect
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Your assessment of what the stakeholder might be feeling but not saying
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Your assessment of what the stakeholder might know but have not declared
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Yourself / your own group
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Inquiring
Question Type
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Purpose
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Checking Questions
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Verifying understandings
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Gathering & Clarifying Questions
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Seeking more information &/or clarifying meanings
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Exploring Questions
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Delving into underlying assumptions, interests, feelings and knowledge
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Testing Questions
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Scrutinising claims and examining inferences
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Futuring Questions
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Identifying and examining desired and possible futures
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Deep-reaching questions for my case
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Question Type (optional)
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Expressing Tool
Introducing: Outlining the context for your remarks, naming the topic/s you’d like to talk about, and declaring your purpose in speaking up
Asserting and supporting: Putting forward the key elements in your case and any reasoning and evidence to back them up – and doing so in ways that demonstrate awareness of other perspectives on the issue
Illuminating: Presenting relevant stories/examples/illustrations/anecdotes to “color-in” your arguments
Disclosing: Making explicit relevant assumptions, interests, feelings and knowledge that you might not otherwise state
Inviting: Creating opportunities for others to respond to what you have said
Synthesizing
Naming and specifying a Transformational Challenge
From (description of an initial set of conditions that can be held out as contestable):
To (description of a desired set of conditions, representing a future vision fulfilled, again that can be held out as contestable):
Identifying a Relational Challenge
One (or more) specific contentious problems you need to work through, in order to reach the vision
What might be a Relational Challenge for you in connection with the issue you are dealing with?
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