While designing my Practical Appreciative Inquiry online course (the next one is starting soon if you want to take it), I auditioned various virtual whiteboard tools for online collaboration. These can be very useful for a virtual team or distributed group to quickly knock together a presentation, a high-level plan, or collaborative vision boards for
If you are looking for a way of using Appreciative Inquiry for evaluation, or you would like to have a business-friendly alternative to the standard 4-D/5-D model, this may be what you’re looking for. Deb Gurke has written an interesting article about how school boards can use AI for self-evaluation, in a way that restores
Wordle.net is a free web-based application that generates ‘word clouds’ from whatever text you paste into it. That makes it great for creating a quick visual summary of the themes, values, wishes etc that come out of an AI summit. You can change the colour, font, background and layout until you find one you like.
Appreciative Inquiry is unrivalled in my experience as a way of engaging people in change. You can feel the atmosphere in a group change within moments of starting a round of appreciative interviews, as if people were waking up from their normal ‘working trance’ and suddenly giving the whole of their attention to the person
