When It Is Used
Use the review while a strengths-based change effort is underway, especially when prior commitments or aspirations need to be revisited over time.
Appreciative Inquiry Progress Review
The Appreciative Inquiry Progress Review is a longitudinal review tool for practitioners supporting a strengths-based change effort. It helps connect progress evidence, what is working, learning, and adjustment needs to the original aspirations or commitments over time.
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Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
What It Captures
The tool captures dated review entries, progress evidence, what is working, learning, adjustment needs, and links to original reference artifacts.
Longitudinal Behavior
Draft reviews are separate from completed review points. Completed entries stay time-ordered so the practitioner can compare change-learning across reviews.
Important Limits
The tool does not score implementation success, diagnose failure, prescribe interventions, or replace the original action plan.
Can the first review show comparison over time?
No. The first review can show baseline reference artifacts, but there is no prior review point for comparison yet.
Can a review be completed without a reference aspiration or commitment?
No. Notes can be drafted, but connected longitudinal review requires at least one aspiration or commitment reference.
Are draft reviews included in the timeline comparison?
No. Drafts are saved separately and excluded from longitudinal comparison until marked complete.
Does the review decide whether the change succeeded?
No. The review organizes evidence, learning, and adjustment needs; it does not make a definitive success or failure judgment.