What is Appreciative Inquiry?
What is a high point experience in your organization - a time when you were most alive and engaged?
From the very first question we ask, change begins. We ask what works, rather than what are the problems to be fixed.
Appreciative inquiry is an affirming way to embrace organizational change. It is a change method with the perspective that every organization has something that works right - things that give it life when it is most alive, effective, successful and connected in healthy ways to its stakeholders and communities.
Appreciative Inquiry begins by identifying what is positive and connects the positive qualities in ways that heighten energy and vision for change.
Applications
- Strategic Planning
- Change Management
- Team Effectiveness
- Valuing Diversity
- Mission, Vision, Values
- Product Development
Appreciative Inquiry initiates a long-term positive change in the organization.
What will happen?
Appreciate Inquiry can vary in length – from a 1.5 hour introductory interview to a full 3 days summit, depending on the objectives. The framework is the 4-D Cycle and the process is flexible and adaptable.
Impact of Appreciative Inquiry
- Reduced cycle time for change – change ready
- Rapid whole system mobilization capacity for strategic planning
- Digital story telling
- Measurable performance in unit performance and employee morale.
“Extraordinary Organizations Are:
Vision-guided, principle-driven businesses and organizations that focus on the “7 Ps of organizational excellence”—Purpose, Principles, Performance, Profit, People, Planet, and bold Possibilities. They serve the needs of employees, the community, external stakeholders, and the world as a creative, entrepreneurial, and constructive force for individual, organizational, and global change. By applying the concepts of Appreciative Inquiry, these leading-edge organizations soar to new heights of success while simultaneously seeing their role in society through a new lens.”
David Cooperrider , co-creator of AI
Professor of Organizational Behavior
Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
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