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APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY AS A TOOL FOR POSITIVE LEADERSHIP

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WHAT SOMETHING OUT FOR YOU FROM OUR LAST SESSION?

CHALLENGE: FOR ONE PERSON WHO MEANS A LOT TO YOU, TRY THIS BEFORE OUR NEXT SESSION (BE READY AND SHARE THIS NEXT WEEK)

“Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves”

A QUICK STORY…

With David Cooperrider

THE SOURCE OF THE WORDS…

Appreciate• Valuing…the act of recognizing the best of

THE SOURCE OF THE WORDS…

Inquiry• The act of exploration and discovery

• The asking of questions

• To be open to seeing new potentials and possibilities

THE PRINCIPLES OF APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

The Positive Principle:Focusing on the positive causes it to grow and brings out the best in people and organizations.

ACCORDING TO RESEARCH ACROSS FIELDS, THE IDEAL POSITIVITY RATIO IS 3:1.

THE PRINCIPLES OF APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

The Anticipatory Principle:Images of the future affect the way we behave in the present.

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THE IMPACT OF POSITIVE IMAGES IN CREATING THE FUTURE…

WHAT’S A POSITIVE IMAGE OF THE FUTURE THAT CAN HELP YOU TODAY TO MOVE IN THAT DIRECTION?

THE PRINCIPLES OF APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

The Simultaneity Principle:The idea that inquiry and change happen simultaneously – the act of asking questions begins the change process.

THE ART OF THE QUESTION: OUR QUESTIONS OPEN NEW WORLDS

¡Why do I still have that problem?

THE ART OF THE QUESTION

¡Why do I still have that problem?

¡What possibilities exist that I have not thought about yet?

¡What’s the smallest change that I could make that could have the biggest impact?

¡What’s coming in the way of getting to a breakthrough?

THE PRINCIPLES OF APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

The Constructionist PrincipleA belief that the words we use don’t just describe our world - they actually create the world we live in.

QUICK STORY: “TERRIBLE TWO’S: VS. ”TERRIFIC TWO’S”

A belief that the words we use don’t just describe our world - they actually create the world we live in.

Share an example where you have experienced this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbLNOS7MxFc

VIDEO: FOCUSING ON BRIGHT SPOTS

AN APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY INTERVIEW:

How to Build High Enthusiasm?

• Do an organization survey of low morale?

• Magnify and learn from moment of highest enthusiasm?

THE 4 “D” APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY PROCESS

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Discovery

What is best about us?

Dream

What might be possible?

Design

What should be the ideal?

Destiny

How to make it stick?

• Reflect on a leadership challenge that you’re facing

• How might you apply Appreciative Inquiry to this challenge?

FOR NEXT SESSION:

A NEW VISION OF LEADERSHIP

“The task of leadership is

to create an alignment of strengths

that make a system’s weaknesses irrelevant.”

Peter Drucker

SCHEDULE: TWO 1-HOUR SESSIONS/WEEK

Introduction and overview of leadership

PERMA model of well-being

Appreciative Inquiry

Strengths based leadership

Identifying your ‘Why’?

Conflict Styles and

Relationships

Teams and Psychological

SafetyManaging

Energy not Time

Measuring Success

Your Personal Leadership Plan

& Wrap-up

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

COMMENTS…QUESTIONS?

THANK YOU & LOOKING FORWARD TO OUR NEXT SESSION!

Mohit Mukherjeemohit@upeace.orgwww.centre.upeace.org