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What do GTE, Cleveland Clinic, NASA, Princeton Health Group, McDonalds, British Airways, USAID and the US Navy have in common?  They have all used Appreciative Inquiry to improve communications, create more effective management, develop leadership, build high performance teams, engage employees, and increase innovation.

  • Are you ready for a positive approach to personal and organizational change?
  • Tired of the same old focus on what's not working, what's wrong, who's to blame and how overwhelming it all is?
  • Do you have hopes and dreams to achieve success for yourself or your organization?
  • Would you enjoy seeing employee engagement, commitment  and enthusiasm arise along with an increase in the bottom line?
  • Are you searching for a way to establish open communication, rather than reduce conflict and negativity?
  • Would you like a way to expand and amplify what works, instead of throwing money away trying to fix what doesn't?
  • Do you wish to unleash human potential and create a true learning organization?

How do we do this? Through a process of appreciative inquiry we discover the positive core of your life or organization, develop the dream, design systems to implement the dream and sustain the positive momentum.  Organizations and individuals who change, grow, move outside of their comfort zone and learn quickly gain and maintain the competitive advantage in all economic conditions. 

How fast do you want to grow?  Are you ready to transform your "GOOD organization into a "GREAT" organization?

AI can be used for virtually any Human Systems change, including:

Accreditation Attitude and Morale Change Branding
Communications Conflict Resolution and mediation Customer Service
Diversity Initiatives Employee Development Focus Groups
Creating an Innovative Culture Leadership Development Missions and Goals
Culture Change Relationship Building Strategic Planning
Team Development Vision & Values Clarification What do you want MORE of?

 

 

 

 

What Is Appreciative Inquiry?

Appreciative Inquiry is a recent approach to organizational development that taps into the heretofore unrecognized resources within a person or an organization to draw forth

  • imaginationWhat is Working? What is your dream?
  • innovation
  • peak performance
  • strengths
  • positive motivation
  • potential
  • opportunities
  • best business practices
  • positive emotions
  • wisdom
  • competencies
  • vision
  • possibilities
  • collective spirit
  • resources

Simply put, Appreciative Inquiry looks for the BEST in people and organizations to facilitate change and realize potential, instead of rooting around for problems to fix.  Instead of asking, "What's wrong here?"  Appreciative Inquiry reframes the question to ask, "What's right here?"

“Appreciative Inquiry focuses us on the positive aspects of our lives and leverages them to correct the negative. It’s the opposite of ‘problem-solving.”  - T. H. White

Organizations that have used Appreciative Inquiry for their initiatives include*:

  • "Over the next year (following an Appreciative Inquiry Summit) major changes were documented: statistically significant decreases in absenteeism, sales up over 200% and profits up 400%." - Rodrigo Loures, President, Nutrimental Foods
  • "Over 10,000 innovations were attributed to the Appreciative Inquiry process, earning GTE an ASTD award for the best organizational change program in the country." - Tom White, President, GTE Telephone Operations
  • "The results of this work (Appreciative Inquiry) are quicker, deeper and more dramatic than any I have witnessed in nearly 20 years of OD work. In a period of months this company and its people have been transformed." - Amanda Trosten - Bloom, Hunter Douglas Corp.
  • "We received the Catalyst Award as the best place in Mexico for women to work after using Appreciative Inquiry" - Avon Products- Mexico City
  • "Management retention in the Appreciative Inquiry group was 30% better than the group using traditional problem solving." - Wendy's International
  • Environmental Protection Agency/Office of Research and Development held an Appreciative Inquiry Summit on the topic of "Igniting Leadership at All Levels: Working Together to Ensure The Earth's Vitality."
  • United Religions Initiative (URI) was founded in 2000 by an extraordinary global community committed to promoting enduring, daily interfaith cooperation and to ending religiously motivated violence. Five years later, the URI includes thousands of members in over 50 countries representing more that 100 religions, spiritual expressions, and indigenous traditions. To create the initiative, URI used Appreciative Inquiry and the revolutionary insights for organizing offered by Dee Hock, founder of VISA international.
  • United States Navy held a four-day Appreciative Inquiry Summit on the topic of "Bold and Enlightened Naval Leaders at Every Level." The inquiry resulted in more than 30 pilot projects.
  • Ben & Jerry's
  • Unitarian Universalists
  • Canadian Department of National Defense
  • Imagine Chicago
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  • Save the Children
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  • Courtyard by Marriott/Hampton Inn
  • Carnival Cruise Lines
  • Cocoa Beach Area Chamber of Commerce
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*While these are all Appreciative Inquiry clients, The Success Doctor was not involved in them unless specifically mentioned by name.

Principles for a Positive Revolution

  1. The Constructivist Principle - Words Create Worlds.  What we believe to be real is created by our words and social interactions.

  2. The Simultaneity Principle - Inquiry Creates Change. Asking questions is intervention. Inquiry and change are simultaneous.

  3. The Poetic Principle - Organizations are mysteries to be appreciated, not problems to be solved.

  4. The Anticipatory Principle - Image Inspires Action. The image of the future drives the current behavior of any organization

  5. The Positive Principle - Positive Questions Lead to Positive Change. The questions we ask set the stage for what we find.  The bolder and more positive the questions, the bolder and more positive the results.

  6. The Wholeness Principle - Everybody Owns a Piece of the Rock:  Shared common goals add impact to learning and create ownership of the change process

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