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…
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…
Principles of Appreciative Inquiry 1: The Constructionist Principle (video)
The first in a series of short videos where we introduce the basic principles underpinning Appreciative Inquiry. The first, and the one from which I think most of the others flow, is the Constructionist Principle. This says that the language…
Emergent Principles Of Appreciative Inquiry 3: The Free Choice Principle
If you know about Appreciative Inquiry, the chances are that you’ll be familiar with its five guiding principles (the Constructionist, Poetic, Simultaneity, Anticipatory, and Positive principles as set out by David Cooperrider in, for example, the Appreciative Inquiry Handbook). Some…
Emergent Principles of Appreciative Inquiry 2: The Enactment Principle
Traditionally, Appreciative Inquiry has had five guiding principles (the Constructionist, Poetic, Simultaneity, Anticipatory, and Positive principles as sent out by David Cooperrider in, for example, the Appreciative Inquiry Handbook). In recent years, new principles have started to emerge as Appreciative…
Emergent principles of Appreciative Inquiry 1: The Wholeness Principle
As well as the five original principles of Appreciative Inquiry (the Constructionist, Poetic, Simultaneity, Anticipatory, and Positive principles) set out by David Cooperrider, other principles have started to emerge in the light of new thinking and the practical experience of…
Appreciative Inquiry Principles: 5. The Positive Principle
Changing the way we work is not easy. It requires us to learn new ways of doing things and new ways of communicating with each other. At the same time, most people find change stressful. The more fundamental the change,…