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PAAR is an acronym to help you
remember that each problem, solution and design gap contains
four components of Power, Accountability, Authority, and
Responsibility. These components give us short-hand in a
long-hand world of complexity, and allow us to quickly frame
problems, solutions, and design gaps quickly and easily.
PAAR is actually a multi-layered,
multi-dimensional model that allows us to short-hand
complexity, and while not completely wholistic in practice,
gives us a toolkit that allows us to understand Ready,
Willing, Able and Fit.
Note the graphic here:
http://www.leadu.com/PAAR
This four stage process using PAAR
is a way in which to design scaffolding, usually through
Role Design, and other less evasive methods, such as task
assignment or facilitated problem solving, monitoring,
coaching and even training to supplement and complement
KSEs.
Almost all pof these categories of
inquiry (at least those that i can think of) have a PAAR,
which, using the golf metaphor, there is a set of success
requirements that can be assigned for the problem to be
solved, or leave unsolved, as often when we solve the wrong
problem, a more complex problem emerges...we want to take care
in just being problem solvers and not looking at down the road
consequences.
Example:
I don't have electricity.
Getting electricity as a PAAR, in
other words, there is power, literally and figuratively<no pun
intended> and accountability, authority and responsibility all
present in solving this problem. It has a PAAR, which when
met, the lights come on.
Yet, even though we established a
PAAR, there is a larger issue looming in the background, which
is a new problem generated by the solution of the first.
What happens or what occurs when
the lights come on, when you can plug in the fan, tv,
refrigerator, or aircon?
Now, drop into Ready, Willing, Able
and Fit?
While this is another dimension of
creating FLOW, it's so central to FLOW.
In the example, do we create FLOW?
Not until we solve the downstream
issues, assessing Ready, Willing, Able and Fit--> like
who is going to pay the new bill, where does the money come
from, what about all the appliances that suddently became
eligible as a result of electricity, putting new pressure on
the income?
You see the PAAR for the "getting
electricity" is actually only part of a much larger "course"
of action, and FLOW stems from downstreaming,
not just problem-solving.
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