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Appreciative Enquiry(AI)
Friday 21st March 2014
Session Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
• Begin to demonstrate a knowledge of the theory of appreciative inquiry as a methodological approach
• Practice AI techniques and identify opportunities within your own environments.
Do we share and recognise great things that happen in our
organisations as often as we would like?
An approach where you shift to a positive perspective, look at the things that are working, and build on them.
By focusing on positives, you can build the unique strengths which bring real success.
AI involves the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system’s capacity to heighten positive potential.
What is AI?
Asking the Powerful Questions
Traditional Problem Solving
“What is the problem?”
Appreciative Inquiry Method
“What is working?”
Asking the Powerful Questions
Insight
Self-Awareness
Asking the Powerful Questions
THE WHOPeople- who was involved?
(How were they involved?)
THE HOWPractice- what behaviours (were different?)
(How were they different?)
The WHAT
Process of provision What was put in place (what was different?)
Asking the Powerful Questions
10 minutes A tells B a story of success
5 minutes B summarises the 3 P’s and checks understanding
10 minutes B tells A a story of success
5 minutes A summarises the 3 P’s and checks understanding
Asking the Powerful Questions
Insight
Self-Awareness
Following your work in pairs, what one thing are you now going to do as
a result of this new knowledge?
“Locating the Energy for Change:An Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry”
Session Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
• Begin to demonstrate a knowledge of the theory of appreciative inquiry as a methodological approach
• Practice AI techniques and identify opportunities within your own environments.
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