Drive
Performance with . . .
Appreciative
Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry is a process of building on the positive
rather than correcting the negative aspects of an organization.
It engages all employees, team members or constituents in determining
what is already working in their organization or community and
what they want to keep or have more of. By expanding the positive,
the negative is minimized and eventually eliminated. Many of the
negative turf issues that prevent consensus disappear as people
move toward rather than away from something.
Appreciative
Inquiry was developed by David Cooperrider at Case Western Reserve
University (www.appreciativeinquiry.com)
and has been used with great success by organizations as diverse
as an historic urban cathedral and the U.S. Navy. Sally Mizerak
is a trained Appreciative Inquiry facilitator and is especially
skilled in using AI in combination with Cultural Transformation
Values Tools and the Balanced Scorecard to promote positive change
in organizations.
Programs and Services:
Appreciative Inquiry can be used in almost any kind of process
where people are considering options for doing something. These
are just a few:
- Any
kind of planning process to surface ideas, develop strategies,
resolve disagreements, make choices, foster innovation and
build buy-in.
- Team
building workshops to get teams to focus on what they
do well and to unleash their creative energy.
- Culture
change efforts, to generate discussion around core values
and the behaviors that make those values live in an organization.
- In
a school to help students focus on positive behaviors while
diminishing the attention on negative acts and to engage them
in discussing their hopes and dreams for the future in a safe
and inspiring way.
Contact Performance Drivers to learn more about how to build your organization on the positive through Appreciative Inquiry
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