A new Practical Appreciative Inquiry live online facilitator training starts soon – click here to get the details and how to book Transcript The affirmative topic for an Appreciative Inquiry is important – ‘fateful’ as many books about AI describe…
Appreciative Inquiry: What Happens In The Definition Stage (video + transcript)
The ‘Definition’ stage of Appreciative Inquiry is where you get everything ready to conduct your Appreciative Inquiry process. It’s the bit that’s taken as a given when we talk about the 4D model – the cycle of Discover, Dream, Design,…
How To Stop Your Boss From Inadvertently Screwing Up Your Meeting
I wonder if you’ve found yourself in a situation like this? Recently one of my former Appreciative Inquiry students called me to get some advice. She was running an ideas generation meeting, using Appreciative Inquiry as a broad framework. Her…
How To Do Appreciative Interviews With People Who Are Feeling Negative
Recently one of my Practical Appreciative Inquiry graduates emailed me an interesting question. She is using an appreciative interview format in her research working with maternity staff (doctors, midwives and maternity support workers) who have worked through the Covid crisis…
Appreciative Inquiry: The 5D Format (video + transcript)
How do you structure an Appreciative Inquiry process? The 5D format is the most widely-used way of doing it. Here’s a quick overview of what happens in each stage. 0:32 – What do we mean by the ‘Positive Core’? 2:05…
Principles Of Appreciative Inquiry 5: The Simultaneity Principle
“The inquiry is the intervention” Because questions direct attention to whatever is being asked about, they affect perceptions, emotions, and sometimes, the beliefs of people answering those questions. Consequently, change starts as soon as you start asking questions. The way…
Principles Of Appreciative Inquiry 4: The Positive Principle
‘Positive questions create positive change’: change requires a lot of positive emotion, which positive questions create. Change requires learning to act in new ways, but it’s also stressful – and people can’t learn when they are stressed. The Positive Principle…
Principles Of Appreciative Inquiry 3: The Poetic Principle (video and transcript)
‘We can choose what we study’ The third in a series of short videos where we introduce the five principles underpinning Appreciative Inquiry. The ‘Poetic Principle’ reminds us that what we focus on grows, so when we choose to study…
Principles Of Appreciative Inquiry 2: The Anticipatory Principle (video)
The second in a series of short videos where we introduce the basic principles underpinning Appreciative Inquiry. The Anticipatory Principle states that organisations (and people) tend to grow in the direction of their positive images of the future, like a…
What Most Leaders Are Getting Wrong About Empathy, And Why That’s Dangerous In Times Of Change: Part 2
This article follows on from What Most Leaders Are Getting Wrong About Empathy, And Why That’s Dangerous In Times Of Change: Part 1 How To Stop Empathy From Destroying Organizations And Families As our organizations evolve into the 21st Century,…