Engaging for Change: Appreciative Inquiry

Overview

Rigorously proven for over twenty five years (with the likes of Yahoo, Hewlett Packard and Cap Gemini), Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is known as ‘today’s most popular new approach to change’.

Achieving full engagement during change is the holy grail of change management, but it must occur at every level. One of the most effective methods to achieve this is Appreciative Inquiry.

At the end of the Engaging for Change: Appreciative Inquiry Short Course, you will have a grounded appreciation of both the theory and the application techniques/tools to promote positive change, particularly as a change agent within your own organisation.

Topics Covered

In any change initiative, inevitably people are the greatest challenge. How to get a shift from guarded hesitancy to volunteered alignment - even better if it could be achieved without your intervention! By applying this deceptively simple process, the typical ‘problem solving’ (deficit) approach to change is turned on its head; its replacement, a ‘strengths-based method’ is far more effective – in terms of stakeholder buy-in and energy, and thus sustainability.

This process augments and accelerates the buy-in process of any current or anticipated change initiative – be-it large or small, strategic or tactical, 1:1 or 1: group (any team size), any area of an organisation, any commercial sector. Its name: Appreciative Inquiry (AI).

Who should attend

Executive leaders, mid-senior managers or Project/Team Leaders from any organisation – those responsible for achieving results through aligning a team’s focus.

Examples of activities where this process can be/has been successfully applied:

• Culture change and transformation
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Utilising informal communications for business growth
• Strategic planning (and implementation)
• Team-building and development
• Management and Leadership Development
• Work process redesign

Outcomes

At the end of the Engaging for Change: Appreciative Inquiry Short Course, you will have a grounded appreciation of both the theory and the application techniques/tools to promote positive change, particularly as a change agent within your own organisation.