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What To Do When It’s Hard To Get Your Affirmative Topic Wording Right
Sometimes it’s easy to ‘flip’ a problem statement into an affirmative topic. But for some problems, perhaps vaguer or more complex ones, it can seem harder. Here’s a process you can use when none of your attempts at an affirmative…
How To Flip Any Problem To Find Positive Ways Past It – Without Ignoring Negatives
Here’s an issue that anyone working with positive change methods is going to face, especially working in a business context. Here also is an elegant way to handle it. The Problem With Problem-Solving This issue is more complex than you…
We Humans Have A Built-In Negative Bias – Here’s How To Redress It (Video And Transcript)
In this video, Andy Smith explains the effects of our hard-wired negative bias, what we can do to combat it, and why Appreciative Inquiry is a particularly effective method. If Appreciative Inquiry is new to you, you may want to…
The Neuroscience Of Appreciative Inquiry – Video And Transcript
In this video, Appreciative Inquiry facilitator Andy Smith introduces two networks in the brain that have been discovered (relatively) recently: the Task Positive Network and the Default Mode Network. This video shows why you need both for effective problem solving…
What Is Appreciative Inquiry? Video
Andy Smith introduces Appreciative Inquiry with a short video. Don’t expect to get the whole of Appreciative Inquiry in this 5 minute video – but it is designed to be a good place to start! Why not watch this first,…
Andy Smith Podcast Interview – Appreciative Inquiry
I was the guest on Gina Pickersgill’s Healing Pool podcast’s episode about Appreciative Inquiry this week! Have a listen – it’s 51 minutes of me talking about how I see Appreciative Inquiry, how it can help, some ways in which…
How Does Appreciative Inquiry Compare With Other Strengths-Based Approaches?
Including:0:35 – One thing that’s unique about Appreciative Inquiry vs other strengths-based approaches1:12 – Actually, in practice there’s another big difference between Appreciative Inquiry and other approaches!2:13 – The difference between ‘inquiry’ and ‘advocacy’ – learning vs persuading Join the…
Why The Cynic On Your Team Is Your Best Friend In Managing Change
A while ago, a friend asked my advice about dealing with an ‘apathetic and cynical’ member of her management team. The team were tasked with driving through some sweeping changes in her Primary Care Trust (I probably need to explain…
The Neuroscience Of Appreciative Inquiry
Advances in brain-imaging technology from the 1990s onwards enabled researchers to discover two networks in the brain that in some ways are in opposition to each other. The Task Positive Network (TPN) is activated when you engage in ‘cognitive’ tasks…