Why the Wholeness Principle deserves to be recognised as the sixth fundamental principle of Appreciative Inquiry, why it liberates you from having to ‘sell’ change to your people, and how it can stop your change initiative ending up in the 70% that fail. Do you want to get started using Appreciative Inquiry confidently with teams?
It’s one thing to train people to be appreciative interviewers – but how do you brief people in an Appreciative Inquiry summit or Appreciative Teambuilding event to interview each other? Chances are, unless they coach or manage people for a living, they aren’t interested the nuances of Appreciative Inquiry or interpersonal dynamics per se. The
Think of all the team meetings you’ve attended in your working life. Chances are that they didn’t represent a high point in your career. Leaving aside the basic fact that managers tend to like meetings a lot more than ‘makers’ (programmers, technicians etc) who tend to view meetings as interruptions to getting their work done,
Lots of subscribers have told me that they found last month’s round up of the best AI resources on the web useful, so I’m keeping it going for now. Here are five resources and articles that I’ve learned from and found useful recently: If you found this resource round-up useful, let me know in the
For this week’s tip I’m indebted to my good friend Gavin Ingham, the renowned sales expert and motivational speaker. Gavin attended the ‘in the room’ version of my Practical Appreciative Inquiry course a few years back, and like so many graduates of the course, has been applying Appreciative Inquiry in his chosen area of expertise
Do you want to get started using Appreciative Inquiry confidently with teams? A new Practical Appreciative Inquiry online training starts soon – click here to get the details and how to book Reading the excellent book Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement by Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres, I was
You won’t find a better example of the spirit of Appreciative Inquiry than this TED talk by speaker and National Geographic photographer Dewitt Jones. It’s the best, and most inspiring, TED talk that I’ve seen, and a great reminder to look for the best in things – which is very different from ‘positive thinking’.
This week I listened to a fascinating podcast interview with author and journalist Gillian Tett about her new book Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life. The book is about what we can learn if we take useful concepts and methods normally hidden away within the fairly obscure academic discipline of anthropology,
Here’s an easy way to help a team or small group identify the themes emerging from their appreciative interviews. And actually, this format isn’t just applicable to Appreciative Inquiry – you could apply a variation of it with any facilitation method that you use if you want to help a team or small group reflect
Some practical tips on some of the ways you can use appreciative interviews – in one-to-one coaching, in large-scale organisational change, in team development, and in Appreciative Inquiry summits. Do you want to get started using Appreciative Inquiry confidently with teams? A new Practical Appreciative Inquiry online training starts soon – click here to get the
Appreciative interviews are the heart of Appreciative Inquiry, and they come in many different formats. This format is the best I’ve found for business use. As well as looking for stories of success, these 4 questions look for what people value and find motivating about their stories, and identifies the conditions that made that success
Appreciative interviews are the most important part of the Appreciative Inquiry process. Here are the four things you need to know to do great appreciative interviews. Do you want to get started using Appreciative Inquiry confidently with teams? A new Practical Appreciative Inquiry online training starts soon – click here to get the details and how
