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- 1. Understanding Appreciative Inquiry Learning to work, think
and be in an appreciative framing Helene C. Sugarman
- 2. What is AI? Dynamic Communication 2006
- 3. What is AI? AI involves the systematic discovery of what
gives life to a system when it is most effective and capable !
- 4. AI:
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- Assumes every person and human system contains untapped, rich,
inspiring Core Values!
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- 6. We discover these core values through a process of carefully
designed questions : Inquiry Dynamic Communication 2006
- 7. Appreciative!
- What We Do Well We identify our strength
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- 8. We ask questions to discover our strengths, and what we are
doing well! (called) Appreciative Inquiry ! Dynamic Communication
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- 9. Social Construction ( Theory - Ken Gergen )
- We create those social and human connections necessary for us
to fulfill our human needs
- We create the necessary connections for us to become high
performing employees and organizations .
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- 10. AI is a Shift
- No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness
that created it. We must see the world anew.
- There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though
nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a
miracle.
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- 11. Current Changes :
- Values now placed on partnerships, collaboration, shared values
and participatory planning
- Impact on technology on us communicating
- Organizations cultures are shifting - from hierarchical command
and control to self managed teams
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- 12. We need a better way to engage everyones Intelligence
- Organizations do not need to be fixed
- Organizations are made and imagined
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- 13. Cultural Consequences of Deficit Thinking and Acting: Note:
for more information see Ken Gergen, Realities and Relationships,
Harvard University Press .
- Fragmentation - break into parts, groups
- Spirals in Deficit vocabularies
- Breakdown in relationships
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- 14. Weisbord: Get Everyone involved in improving the Whole
System Dynamic Communication 2006
- 15. Change is happening!(Research) Positive Image = Positive
Action
- Affirmative Capacity and leadership
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- 16. HOW do we use AI?
- By Linking your Core Values to your organizational strategy or
change agenda, you create your desired future!
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- 17. How? (The Process) Moving Forward Together!
- We tap into this collective energy (released through our
inquiry) as we then create our C ollaborative Design
(together)!
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- 18. Using this Energy and Creating our Design helps us produce
Sustainable Changes Dynamic Communication 2006
- 19. Moving the Energy Forward: Transforming the organization (
Last two steps of AI)
- Design stage is the How we get from where we are to where we
want to be: Our Desired Future +
- Destiny stage is the implementation and evaluation
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- 20. Design + Destiny = Transformation! Together they provide
the transformation of the organization using the energy of its
people
- 21. Linking the Positive Core AI systematically (and
collaboratively )
- creates a knowledge link between the organization and
- Life-generating CORE of present and future CAPABILITIES
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- 22. INQUIRY PRODUCES CHANGE
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- IGNITES UPWARD SPIRAL OF POSTIVE CHANGE
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- 23. Connect Whole Organization to the Positive Core:
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- Positive emotions of hope, joy inspiration
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- Expands language of life (internal dialogue)
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- Increases appreciative interchange - mutually elevates
relationships
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- Increased collective capacity
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- 24. Whole to Core (cont)
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- Letting go makes negatives irrelevant
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- Finishes the residuals of the organizations negative past
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- Differs from traditional work in OD where you share the results
of assessments including what is wrong within organization setting
up
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- additional potential conflict
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- 25. Whole to Core (3)
- PROTECTION IN THE FUTURE:
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- Increases over-all health
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- Similar to immune system functioning
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- These connections create the power which leads to the
organizations transformation !
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- 26. When Everyone is invited to participate :
- We release enthusiastic energy
- We tap into personal commitment and buy-in
- We reach all levels of the organization
- We own the changes since we created them!
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- 27. Transformation
- Once we have these sustainable changes, we help your
organization through a transformation
- LINKING your Core Power into your desired future !
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- 28. The Interview
- Listen with your mind and your heart
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- Be silent allow thinking time
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- 29. How we can choose to be Today
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- 30. Inquiry is Change
- 31. Sources:
- www.dynamic-communications.com
- www.aic-dclearningcommunity.com
- www.appreciativeinquiry.case .
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