The book reveals how using the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) process can help OD and HR professionals discover and tap rich, inspiring ?high point? accounts of personal or collective capacity and link this ?positive core? to any change agenda. This innovative process can be an effective way to work with organizations as organic systems whose success depends on a holistic approach to the connected human, technical, and organizational functions that make up any organization. New edition deftly meets challenge of making AI accessible to many without either trivializing it or overcomplicating it. It updates and revises the three key areas of AI: what are AIs theoretical basis, AIs fundamental assumptions and beliefs, and basic processes. Importantly, the new edition adds step-by-step guidelines on how to apply AI in a variety of organizational situations and for a variety of initiatives (coaching, leadership development, strategic planning, teambuidling, etc.) Also includes tools and other resources to help with immediate use in the workplace and new and updated case studies that show how it really works. Where the first edition focuses on Why and Where AI has worked, the new edition focuses on How AI really works. Also substantially expanded is chapter 8, Finding Innovative Ways to Create the Preferred Future, including fresh appreciative approaches to the Destiny Phase, the most complex part of any change process.
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9781118015124, 9781118015100, 9781118015117, 9786613052506, 9781283052504, 1118015126, 111801510X, 1118015118, 6613052507, 1283052504
Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination Ebook
By: Jane Magruder Watkins, Bernard J. Mohr, Ralph Kelly
Publisher:
Pfeiffer
Print ISBN: 9780470527979, 0470527978
eText ISBN: 9781118015124, 1118015126
Edition: 2nd
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