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Creating Sustainable Positive Change: A Micro-training In Appreciative Inquiry
Susan Belgard
CD recording,
2006, Nov 27
Annotation: Learn more about Appreciative Inquiry -- a powerful way of interacting with individuals, teams, organizations and communities -- the principles, the process, the way of being!!
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a powerful change process using positive questions, past successes, vision and values and an overall appreciative approach. Unfolding in 5 major phases – Define, Discover, Dream, Design, Deliver -- AI encourages people to acknowledge strengths, values and personal and professional high points, imagine a compelling future and build structures and relationships that help them craft inspired, innovative plans to fulfill their dreams. It unleashes excellence and joy.
Emerging from the fields of positive organizational development and paralleling the positive psychology movement, it has received world-wide acclaim for the quick and sustainable results it produces in organizations and communities. AI is now being used to similar advantage in personal coaching as well.
AI is used successfully in an enormous range of applications, including:
• Communications • Employee development • Conflict resolution and mediation• Mergers and multi-site expansions • Strategic planning • Organizational culture change and transformation • Human resource practices, staffing orientation, and performance management • Leadership and management development • Organization and structure design • Vision and values clarification • Relationship building • Personal growth • Collaborative alliances, joint ventures, and partnerships
Testimonials from participants in Susan’s recent teleclasses:
I want to congratulate you on delivering a very comprehensive, information rich presentation. You presented a great deal of information in a very concise and eloquent manner. I have spent hours/days in classrooms discussing the theoretical aspects of A.I. from an organizational perspective, and am impressed by how much you were able to cover in such a short period of time....
~Jim Berry, CPCC
"I am amazed at how Susan is able to bring Appreciative Inquiry to life by going through the steps of the process with clear and concise explanations and by giving examples of how AI can bring about positive change. She also has a wonderfully calming manner. She made a true believer out of me!"
~ Edward G. Modell, JD, CPCC
Your clarity was excellent. . . . Thanks for sharing your gifts.
~Mark Lindblad, CPCC
You presented in a clear, concise and articulate manner. Your voice is so warm, inviting and fresh, while conveying a sense of mastery over the subject matter.
Mary Ellen Goggin, JD
You can order the CD ($29 domestic, $35 outside continental US) at
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=117283
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(submitted by Susan Belgard)
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