The Free Choice Principle: Positive Change Methods Podcast Ep. 10
Appreciative Inquiry’s Free Choice Principle: why organisations thrive when people are treated as volunteers
The Enactment Principle: Positive Change Methods Podcast Ep. 9
How Appreciative Inquiry’s ‘Enactment Principle’ is vital for successful change + why it’s not the same as ‘Fake it till you make it’
The Wholeness Principle: Positive Change Methods Podcast Ep. 8
Appreciative Inquiry’s ‘Wholeness Principle’ – the easy way to engage people, get past ‘groupthink’, and make decisions more robust
‘The Inquiry Is the Intervention’: The Simultaneity Principle – Positive Change Methods Podcast Ep. 7
Appreciative Inquiry’s ‘Simultaneity Prinicple’ – a radically different way of thinking about change and how quickly it can happen!
‘Positive Questions Lead to Positive Change’: the Positive Principle – Positive Change Methods Podcast Ep. 6
Appreciative Inquiry’s ‘Positive Principle’ – the ‘Paradox of Change’, why most large-scale change initiatives fail, how positive emotions improve decision-making and productivity, and practical steps you can take to put the Positive Principle into action and improve your work (and life) right now
‘We Can Choose What We Focus On’: The Poetic Principle – Positive Change Methods Podcast Ep. 5
The Poetic Principle of Appreciative Inquiry – explained in simple terms, with real-world examples and useful suggested questions
‘Images Inspire Action’: The Anticipatory Principle – Positive Change Methods Podcast Ep. 4
The Anticipatory Principle in Appreciative Inquiry – how our positive images of the future can guide our actions in the present day
‘Words Create Worlds’: The Constructionist Principle – Positive Change Methods Podcast Ep. 3
Appreciative Inquiry’s Constructionist Principle and what it means for you in practice – and why change can happen much faster than we expect
Principles of Appreciative Inquiry in Coaching: the Free Choice Principle
Continuing the series applying the principles of Appreciative Inquiry to one-to-one coaching “Free choice liberates power” – Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom, The Power of Appreciative Inquiry The Free Choice Principle states that people perform better, and are more engaged, when they get to choose what they work on. If they’re told what to do
Principles of Appreciative Inquiry in Coaching: the Enactment Principle
“The only way to change the world is to live the difference” – Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom, The Power of Appreciative Inquiry The Enactment Principle reminds us that the best way – perhaps the only way – to make your desired future come about is to start enacting it in the present. Acting ‘as
Principles of Appreciative Inquiry in Coaching: The Wholeness Principle (part 1)
“Wholeness brings out the best in people” The three ‘emergent’ principles of Appreciative Inquiry developed some time after the original five, arising from what practitioners observed and found to work as they facilitated Appreciative Inquiry processes with organisations and communities. They were first set out in The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to
Principles of Appreciative Inquiry in Coaching: the Simultaneity Principle
“The inquiry is the intervention” Change Starts From the Very First Question Someone new to coaching might think that we should ask questions to help the client explore their situation, at the same time gathering information to clue ourselves in to what’s going on for them; and only after that does change start, as we