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AI in the Press: Article Detail

A Perfect Partnership: The High Performance Coaching Relationship
Author: Gregg Thompson , Suzanne Biro

NewsDurhamRegion.com
Date: 12/01/2007

Edition: online

In 1987, David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva published a ground-breaking paper entitled “Appreciative Inquiry in Organizational Life.”
In it, they outlined what they called the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) method for organizational change and development. Essentially, AI takes Rogers’ ideas about client-centered therapy and applies them to organizations instead of individuals. As its name suggests, AI aims to identify, support, and perpetuate the very best in an organization through structured questioning.


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