Positive Change Methods: Appreciative Inquiry and More
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A Podcast About Appreciative Inquiry, Solution Focused Practice, Positive Psychology and More!
How do you help your workforce stay creative and engaged? How can you be a positive leader - without falling into the toxic positivity trap? What do you do with problems that keep coming back every time you try to solve them?
Announcing a new podcast that helps you make your life and work better by focusing on what’s working, and doing more of that.
The Positive Change Methods podcast explains and explore leading-edge approaches to change – Appreciative Inquiry, solution focused practice, positive psychology, and more.
I’m Andy Smith, Appreciative Inquiry facilitator and trainer. I’ve been facilitating and teaching Appreciative Inquiry and related approaches for over 15 years, and I want to make them available to every leader, every coach, and every manager.
We’ll give you easy to understand explanations of how Appreciative Inquiry works, and how to use it. We’ll also have interviews with thought leaders, and practitioners using these approaches to get results in the real world – in business, health services, education, and community development.
And each episode gives you something practical that you can take away and start using immediately to make your life or work better.
How do you help your workforce stay creative and engaged? How can you be a positive leader - without falling into the toxic positivity trap? What do you do with problems that keep coming back every time you try to solve them?
Announcing a new podcast that helps you make your life and work better by focusing on what’s working, and doing more of that.
The Positive Change Methods podcast explains and explore leading-edge approaches to change – Appreciative Inquiry, solution focused practice, positive psychology, and more.
I’m Andy Smith, Appreciative Inquiry facilitator and trainer. I’ve been facilitating and teaching Appreciative Inquiry and related approaches for over 15 years, and I want to make them available to every leader, every coach, and every manager.
We’ll give you easy to understand explanations of how Appreciative Inquiry works, and how to use it. We’ll also have interviews with thought leaders, and practitioners using these approaches to get results in the real world – in business, health services, education, and community development.
And each episode gives you something practical that you can take away and start using immediately to make your life or work better.
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Appreciative Inquiry talks a lot about generative questions - but what are they? What do they do? And how to ask them successfully? Find out in this episode of the Positive Change Methods Podcast
Exploring the transformative world of Appreciative Inquiry with Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres, authors of 'Conversations Worth Having'. Learn how to ask generative questions and frame conversations positively to foster collaboration and growth in your personal and professional life. Plus, the importance of curiosity, and how to avoid toxic positivity!
Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm24
Interview with Wendy Burton, who's been using Appreciative Inquiry in the NHS in conjunction with Lean and Design Thinking to help improve processes and turn around struggling teams. Lots of useful tips and insights applicable beyond coaching in healthcare!
Shownotes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm23 (includes transcript)
When you're creating a vision of the ideal future with a team, or even a whole organisation, wouldn't it be great if they could get free of the constraints of past problems and limits? That's what the Dream stage of Appreciative Inquiry's 5-D format is designed to do.
Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm22
Many business processes, essential as they are, don’t in themselves make the heart beat faster. How can we use Appreciative Inquiry to stimulate generative thinking about topics that are hard to engage with emotionally?
Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm21
How do you conduct appreciative interviews with people who are feeling negative, or who are going through a tough time? This episode has some tips for doing the interviews sensitively, and for handling ‘negativity’ or cynicism from the interviewee.
Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm20
So your group have done their appreciative interviews with each other - now, how do they identify the themes emerging from them?
This episode is a deep dive the into practicalities of facilitating an Appreciative Inquiry process, starting with a small-group appreciative team development session and including tips for scaling up to larger groups.
Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm19
Appreciative interviews are a great way to find what's working so you can do more of it. Here are three ways you can use them
Show notes at https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm18
There are various formats for appreciative interviews in the Appreciative Inquiry textbooks - this one works nicely for business.
Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm17
Appreciative interviews - what they are, why we do them, and what you need to know to make them work.
Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm16
What should you do BEFORE you plan any change? Discover what's already working! Find out how to conduct Appreciative Inquiry's Discovery stage.
Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm15
The 'Problem to Possibility Exercise' - how to get a problem-focused team to move on to desired solutions and accept an appreciative approach.
Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm14
In this week's episode, a checklist for a well-defined affirmative topic, plus the easy way to flip problem statements to affirmative topics
What you need at the start of an Appreciative Inquiry project, and why you need to flip problem statements into affirmative topics
A quick overview of the most-used format for structuring an Appreciative Inquiry process, the 5-D Format. Plus, why it's so great!
Appreciative Inquiry's Free Choice Principle: why organisations thrive when people are treated as volunteers
How Appreciative Inquiry’s ‘Enactment Principle’ is vital for successful change + why it's not the same as ‘Fake it till you make it’
Appreciative Inquiry's 'Wholeness Principle' - the easy way to engage people, get past 'groupthink', and make decisions more robust
Appreciative Inquiry's 'Simultaneity Prinicple' - a radically different way of thinking about change and how quickly it can happen!
Appreciative Inquiry's 'Positive Principle' - the 'Paradox of Change', why most large-scale change initiatives fail, how positive emotions improve decision-making and productivity, and practical steps you can take to put the Positive Principle into action and improve your work (and life) right now
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