Appreciative Inquiry

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Appreciative inquiry focuses on bringing out the best in people and discovering how they use their skills to function in their work and everyday life. Through appreciative inquiry, an employer uses the art of asking questions and considering opinions to strengthen the system as a whole; creating a more positive environment and heightening employee potential.  This approach is designed to focus less on negativity and criticism, and more on utilizing personal strengths and encouraging discovery.

What Will You Learn?

  • Know the meaning of appreciative inquiry
  • Think in positive terms and avoid thinking negatively
  • Encourage others to think positively
  • Recognize positive attributes in people
  • Create positive imagery
  • Manage and guide employees in a positive environment

Course Content

Course Objectives
At the end of this workshop, participants should be able to: Know the meaning of appreciative inquiry Think in positive terms and avoid thinking negatively Encourage others to think positively Recognize positive attributes in people Create positive imagery Manage and guide employees in a positive environment

  • Getting Started
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Module One: Introducing Appreciative Inquiry
To garner a clearer understanding of how to implement appreciative inquiry, we must first have a clearer understanding of what it means. There are many techniques and practices that can be used to bring about positive change through appreciative inquiry that anyone can use in their lives. Learning about appreciative inquiry not only benefits the employee, but the entire company. It helps address ways to encourage positive thinking instead of using negativity or even criticism.

Module Two: Changing the Way You Think
Lesson Summary Identify and recognize attributes from appreciative inquiry that can help you determine future goals and actions. Determine how appreciative inquiry can contribute to future success. Appreciative inquiry helps build a vision for a better future by using questions to turn a person’s attention to their past, present, and future successes. These questions generally focus on what that person enjoys about their surroundings and their current situations. Once these ideas have been identified, the individual can take these positive thoughts to turn toward the future and build a path to success. Since we learn from our past mistakes and choices, we can use questions and insights to decide what we can use to make the right choices later. The key is identifying what works for you, and how you can use this to your advantage to create a better future. Ways to create your future today: • Determine your goals • Plan for them • Identify how appreciative inquiry can affect these goals and plans Recommend Activity Complete Worksheet 2 – Creating My Better Future, then share your ideas with the rest of the class by posting your answers in the comment / parking lot. Review Questions How does appreciative inquiry affect our future goals?

Module Four: Four D Model
The power of your thoughts can open any door and you can set yourself free. ~ Lucy Macdonald ~ Appreciative inquiry opens new doors for us, and opens our eyes to a new way of thinking. With positive thoughts and attitudes, we can discover new ways of reaching our goals. We can be free to dream about new ambitions and set ourselves up for success. After a plan is made, we can design how to reach that goal and deliver the end result. Yes, we can accomplish all of this, if we just believe that we have the skills and confidence to do it.

Module Five: The Four I Model
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. ~ Wade Boggs ~ The Four I Model is very similar to the Four D Model previously discussed; however, while the Four D Model focuses on the individual employee as well as a small group of employees, the Four I Model is designed to think one step beyond that. This model focuses on taking changes and plans, designed by employees, and implementing them into other levels of the company, such as upper management and stakeholders.

Module Six: Appreciative Inquiry Interview Style
doesn’t come to you – you go to it. ~ Marva Collins ~ Many people associate interviews with fear and anxiety and will immediately break into a sweat when they are called into one. But the Appreciative Inquiry interview style helps to do away with those stereotypes. This type of interview style focuses on positive questions, enjoyable stories, and discovering how the potential employee can make an impact on the company.

Module Seven: Anticipatory Reality
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~ John Wooden ~ Anticipatory reality is helpful in appreciative inquiry because it makes us focus on the future and what we want. One of the first steps of anticipatory reality is creating an image of the future and determining what can help us get there. We can change things, add new themes, and set goals – we are constantly fashioning our anticipatory reality.

Module Eight: The Power of Positive Imagery
Imagery can be used in a variety of ways. It helps us create a full picture of an idea or situation, based on details and facts that we’re presented with. Positive imagery is a key tool in helping us remain positive and upbeat when faced with a dilemma. The key is to find what imagery works for you and use it to help you accomplish your goals and ambitions.

Module Nine: Influencing Change Through Appreciative Inquiry
What we actually learn from any given set of circumstances determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. Blaine Lee Influencing other people can have a ripple effect – it can start small but then the efforts begin to grow and grow. Of course, we want to influence other people in a positive manner, not a negative one. Through Appreciative Inquiry, we can influence others by being positive ourselves, and by helping them make positive changes in their lives.

Module Ten: Coaching and Managing With Appreciative Inquiry
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people. But real management is developing people through work. ~ Agha Hasan Abedi ~ Managing a group of people can be a difficult task by itself, much less trying to coach them in the right direction. Sometimes our good intentions can come across as critical, negative, or just plain mean. But when we use Appreciative Inquiry along with other coaching or management strategies, we can help our employees find a solution to their problems while also making them more positive and confident in themselves.

Module Eleven: Creating a Positive Core
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. ~ Mary Engelbreit ~ If we want others around us to be positive and confident, then we have to create it within ourselves first. This can mean first focusing on yourself and your positive core and then creating a positive core among your employees. Building a strong core in yourself ensures that you can have the confidence you need to complete any job. Having a strong, positive core among employees ensures that coworkers can work together and still maintain their own confidence. A strong core can stick together despite rough problems that may arise.

Module Twelve: Wrapping Up
There are no secrets to success. It is the results of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. ~ Colin Powell ~ Although this workshop is coming to a close, we hope that your journey to understanding Appreciative Inquiry is just beginning. Please take a moment to review and update your Action Plan. This will be a key tool to guide your progress in the days, weeks, months, and years to come. We wish you the best of luck on the rest of your travels!

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