Leading Positive Change through Appreciative Inquiry

This module introduces Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and positions it within strength-based approaches to human development and organizational change. It contrasts AI with deficit-based change approaches and discusses their unintended consequences.

This module focuses on the power of positive questions and storytelling in engaging stakeholders. It includes practical experience with appreciative interviews and demonstrates how questions leaders ask can shape organizational outcomes.

This module introduces the AI 4-D Cycle (Discovery, Dream, Design, Destiny) and demonstrates how appreciative leaders can reconnect organizations with their core strengths. It emphasizes stability-in-change as a key leadership skill.

This module explores AI's foundational principles and supporting research, focusing on positive questions, future images, and positive emotions. It emphasizes creating workspaces with a positive-to-negative imagery ratio of 4:1 or greater.

This module covers Topic Choice and reframing problems into affirmative opportunities. It includes a case study demonstrating how organizations can move through the AI 4-D Cycle to achieve positive changes and improved outcomes.

This module integrates previous concepts through a case study of safety improvement, emphasizing how words create worlds. It provides practical guidance for leaders to experiment with AI and incorporate it into their daily leadership practice.