By: Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, Jay Cherney, Ron Fry Appreciative Team Building provides you and your team with everything you need to discover the keys to past successes and future possibilities by igniting engaging conversations. Providing 48 positive... read more
Adapted from The Power of Appreciative Inquiry, 2nd Edition Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom One way to understand Appreciative Inquiry is to consider the meaning of its two words. Each word alone has implications for the practice of organization change. The... read more
Adapted from The Power of Appreciative Inquiry, 2nd Edition Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom Strategic Focus: Our work begins with a compelling strategic focus or change agenda – something of significance that a client organization or community hopes to realize.... read more
By: Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, Kae Rader The practice of leadership is on the brink of a paradigm shift. It is moving from authoritarian to collaborative practices, from fear-based to strengths-based relationships, and from talking at people to dialoguing... read more
Adapted from Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom and Kae Rader A social transformation is taking place in organizations worldwide. Leadership practices... read more
Over a two-year span, the Bryn Athyn Church, the largest New Church congregation in the world, used Appreciative Inquiry processes to engage more than 450 people in building both a shared vision and a strategic plan to get there. The process healed factional rifts,... read more
This two-year initiative for the Unitarian Universalist Association was designed to ‘discover our shared aspirations and unleash the power of our faith’. The article describes the highly accessible design and materials,demonstrating how an AI process can be grounded... read more
Appreciative Inquiry fosters humility in four ways, through: 1. The structure of one-on-one appreciative interviews; 2. Appreciative introductions in small groups; 3. Narrative analysis and interpretive generosity; and 4. Wonder about wholeness Read More Source: The... read more
Adapted from The Power of Appreciative Inquiry, 2nd Edition Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom Appreciative Inquiry is a philosophy and a methodology for positive change. It is founded on the simple assumption that human systems – teams, organizations and... read more
The call to consciously design processes for human organizing through an affirmative, life giving lens has never been louder, more relevant and more essential to the well being and success of organizations world wide than it is today. The challenges of our time... read more
