The Only Icebreaker You’ll Ever Need for Training or Facilitation
Training and facilitation tip: here’s an easy Appreciative Inquiry-based icebreaker you can use in your training courses
How to Ask Generative Questions: Positive Change Methods Podcast 25
Appreciative Inquiry talks a lot about generative questions – but what are they? What do they do? And how to ask them successfully? Find out in this episode of the Positive Change Methods Podcast
How to Handle Negative Feelings in Appreciative Interviews: Positive Change Methods Podcast Ep. 20
How do you conduct appreciative interviews with people who are feeling negative, or who are going through a tough time? This episode has some tips for doing the interviews sensitively, and for handling ‘negativity’ or cynicism from the interviewee.
Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm20
How to Identify Themes From Appreciative Interviews; Positive Change Methods Podcast Ep 19
So your group have done their appreciative interviews with each other – now, how do they identify the themes emerging from them?
This episode is a deep dive the into practicalities of facilitating an Appreciative Inquiry process, starting with a small-group appreciative team development session and including tips for scaling up to larger groups.
Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm19
3 Ways You Can Use Appreciative Interviews to Identify Conditions for Success: Positive Change Methods Podcast 18
Appreciative interviews are a great way to find what’s working so you can do more of it. Here are three ways you can use them
Show notes at https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm18
A Business-Friendly Appreciative Interview Format: Positive Change Methods Podcast Episode 17
There are various formats for appreciative interviews in the Appreciative Inquiry textbooks – this one works nicely for business.
Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm17
Appreciative Interviews: Positive Change Methods Podcast Episode 16
Appreciative interviews – what they are, why we do them, and what you need to know to make them work.
Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm16
Three Common Myths About Appreciative Inquiry
1. Appreciative Inquiry Is Only About Being ‘Positive’ ❌ On first hearing about Appreciative Inquiry, it might be tempting to dismiss the approach as ‘looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses, pretending everything is wonderful, and sweeping problems under the carpet.’ That’s a misunderstanding of the approach. Rather, Appreciative Inquiry is a way of looking
How Change Happens As Soon As You Start Asking Questions
If they’re the right kind of questions, that is The traditional idea of change in organisations starts with diagnosing the problem, then prescribing a solution – and only when you start to carry out the prescribed remedies would you expect change to start happening. The change philosophy known as Appreciative Inquiry (AI) approaches things differently.
How To Use Appreciative Inquiry Without A Formal 5D Cycle (4): Appreciative Interviews In Coaching
How to get your coaching client to feel at ease with you, open up quicker, and reframe their issues, in your first session A new Practical Appreciative Inquiry online training starts soon – click here to get the details and how to book One of the joys of running the Practical Appreciative Inquiry facilitator training is
How To Brief People To Do Appreciative Interviews
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
How To Use Appreciative Inquiry Without A Formal 5D Cycle (2): Conversational Appreciative Inquiry!
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