Date: | January 9, 2020 - 10:00am - 11:00am |
Timezone: | (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) |
Location: | Online Event, Fremont, CA, 94539, United States |
Website for Event: | https://www.traininng.com/webinar/--201246live?channel=selfgrowth-JAN_2020_SEO |
Topic: | Business Networking |
Description: | Overview Cooperrider and his adviser published a paper in 1987 which posited that the overuse of "problem solving" hampered any kind of social improvement, and what was needed were new methods of inquiry that would help generate new ideas and models for how to organize. The authors portrayed organizations as living organisms, arguing that organizations are created, maintained and changed by conversations (interchanges between people), and claiming that the way organizations evolved was only limited by people's imaginations and the agreements among them. This theory was inclusive and encompassed every person in the organization. The model is based on the assumption that the questions we ask will tend to focus our attention in a particular direction, that organizations evolve in the direction of the questions they most persistently and passionately ask.[11] In the mid 80's most methods of assessing and evaluating a situation and then proposing solutions were based on a deficiency model, predominantly asking questions such as "What are the problems?", "What's wrong?" or "What needs to be fixed?". Instead of asking "What's the problem?", others couched the question in terms of "challenges", which still focused on the negative, on what needs to be fixed or solved. Appreciative Inquiry was the first researched change management method to pay attention to what works, the positive "core" in people and organizations, and on what people really care about. Today, these ways of approaching organizational change are commonly understood, but frequently not practiced. Furthermore, the focus on the positive has made its way into Positive Psychology as mapped out by Martin Segilman, at University of Pennsylvania. However, while Positive Psychology is defined as a science, Appreciative Inquiry is designed as an organization change and leadership development process. It is widely used as a basis for much solution focused exeutive coaching. In addition to the five phases as defined above, there are five basic principles of AI. As the study of AI progressed, many other principles emerged, but below are the five original principles as outlined by Cooperrider and Dianna Whatley. The five principles of AI are: The constructionist principle Through the language and discourse of day to day interactions, people co-construct the organizations they inhabit. The purpose of inquiry is to stimulate new ideas, stories and images that generate new possibilities for action |
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