1. At the end of the change programme, what will you have achieved? What is the ultimate objective?

2. What is the bare minimum you need to achieve?

3. Can you describe the world after you've achieved your objective? What would you see, hear, think, feel differently? If not, then how can you make your objective more specific?

4. How did you come to the decision to make the change you have brought to the change programme?

5. Does anyone have any unrealistic expectations?

6. What resources/support do you need? How could you be creative about acquiring these resources?

7. What evidence do you have to support and inform what you are trying to achieve?

8. Is this initiative dependent on anything else happening, or is anything else dependent on this initiative?

9. How will you know the change has taken place?

10. What is the scale of the change you want to make? Is this appropriate?

11. What is the first step towards achieving your objective?

12. What opportunities does this initiative create? How will you make the most of these?

13. What have others done in similar situations?

14. What have you done in the past that might be useful now?

15. What are the important dates/deadlines for this initiative, start/finish dates?

16. What are the anticipated risks or challenges? How will you address these?

17. What will people be expecting you to do? What could you do that they aren't expecting?

18. What will the initiative need to do over the next 6–12 months to achieve the objective? (a list of deliverables/tasks)

19. How else could you be looking at your initiative? What might you be missing?

20. What is already working well?

21. Who would have a different view of your initiative?

22. Who is actually going to put this idea into practice?

23. Who else could help you? Why have you identified these people?

24. Who will notice first when things change?

25. Who is going to support this work in the long term?

26. What is the role of students in your initiative?

27. Who might benefit from your initiative? How might they benefit?

28. Which parts of your initiative and action plan are up to you?

29. How might the people affected by your initiative feel about it?

30. Who has a vested interest in the success of your initiative?