Podcast appearances and mentions of David Cooperrider

Buckle up—this week's episode lights the fuse on culture-changing conversations, showing you how a single powerful question can ignite an entire organization! In this episode, Nicole Greer sits down with powerhouse duo Cheri Torres and Jackie Stavros, co-authors of Conversations Worth Having, to explore how the practice of Appreciative Inquiry (the other AI) can transform your workplace culture—one conversation at a time.Together, they share practical tools like the SOAR framework and the 5D cycle, explain how to “flip and frame” any problem into a growth opportunity, and reveal the neuroscience behind positive conversations. Packed with real-world stories from healthcare, manufacturing, and education, this episode shows you how to shift meetings from draining to energizing—starting with a single generative question.Whether you lead a team, run a business, or want to communicate more effectively, this episode will equip you with simple but powerful practices that create clarity, connection, and real results.Highlights from this episode:[00:03:10] What Is Appreciative Inquiry? Jackie defines Appreciative Inquiry as "the other AI"—a strength-based approach that focuses on what's working, what was, and what could be.[00:14:14] Generative Questions Unlock Human Potential. Learn what makes a question “generative” and how it invites energy, ideas, and inclusion.[00:22:21] Name It, Flip It, Frame It. The core technique for reframing challenges into conversations worth having, illustrated with a hospital case study.[00:39:05] Introducing SOAR. The SOAR model (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, Results) is presented as a practical alternative to SWOT analysis.[00:46:52] The Neuroscience of ConversationCheri explains how threat-based conversations shut down the brain—and how positive engagement lights it up. Get the book here: https://a.co/d/hNaQysCCWH Foundations Course: https://www.conversationsworthhaving.today/foundations**Use coupon code VIBRANTCULTURE and get 30% off the course! Expires 8/31/25**Also mentioned in this episode:FeedForward concept, Marshall Goldsmith: https://www.marshallgoldsmith.com/post/try-feedforward-instead-of-feedbackAppreciative Inquiry, David Cooperrider: https://a.co/d/esUdQ3xConnect with Cheri & Jackie:Website https://www.conversationsworthhaving.today/Cheri LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/cbtorres/Jackie LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackie-stavros-0b45824/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cwhtoday/Listen today at www.vibrantculture.com/podcast or your favorite podcast platform!Learn more about Nicole Greer, the Vibrant Coach: https://www.vibrantculture.com/

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a strengths-based approach that fosters innovation and collaboration by focusing on what works well rather than identifying weaknesses. Developed by David Cooperrider, AI follows a 5-D Cycle: Define (identify focus), Discover (explore strengths), Dream (envision possibilities), Design (co-create solutions), and Destiny/Deliver (implement change).Research shows that positive inquiry enhances creativity, motivation, and engagement. Leaders who ask questions emphasizing strengths rather than problems create more innovative and adaptable teams. For example, organizations using AI have improved employee morale, patient satisfaction, and student performance by shifting from a problem-focused to a success-driven approach.Practical AI strategies include reframing questions to emphasize possibilities. Instead of asking, “Why is this failing?” try, “When has this worked well, and what made it successful?” Encouraging storytelling and using open-ended questions also lead to deeper insights and collaboration.Studies confirm AI's effectiveness in increasing engagement, creativity, and leadership impact. By adopting AI, individuals and organizations can shift from problem-solving to strength-building, unlocking new opportunities for growth and meaningful change.About the Power of PeacefulnessThe Power of Peacefulness is a blog dedicated to helping professional women cultivate inner peace in their careers, relationships, and personal growth. It features insightful articles on topics like resilience, mindfulness, and setting boundaries, along with expert perspectives from mental health professionals and diverse guest bloggers. The blog also highlights real-life reader experiences in The Peaceful Path of the Month and provides actionable tips to inspire a journey toward greater balance and fulfillment. Through storytelling, expert insights, and practical advice, The Power of Peacefulness fosters a supportive community for those seeking a more peaceful and purposeful life.Read more on this post https://www.powerofpeacefulness.com/post/appreciative-inquiry-and-the-power-of-asking-better-questionsRead more articleshttps://www.powerofpeacefulness.com/

In this episode we got to sit down with David Cooperrider and Lindsey Godwin to hear about their work with the UN Global Compact and how they apply the Appreciative Inquiry approach. We take a deep dive into their experience using a dialogic process to bring leaders from across industries to work together towards a common goal – to create a sustainable world where all humans can flourish.    For more information on the initiative that Lindsay and David discussed visit the UN Global Compact. To learn more about Appreciative Inquiry, check out the AI practitioner journal, and find additional resources available through the Fowler Center at Case Western and the Cooperrider Center at Champlain.   Have a question, comment, or a recommendation for a perfect guest? Please email us at TransformationHorizon@gmail.com.    Enjoying the podcast? Subscribe to our Patreon: https://patreon.com/TransformationHorizonPodcast   #ODHorizonStories  

Who's Inspiring Impacts today? It's the one and only, Dr. David Cooperrider, the first person to coin the term “Appreciative Inquiry”! David Cooperrider, PhD, is a professor and Founder of the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. As we wrap up Season 1 of Inspiring Impacts, David joins host Dr. Lindsey Godwin to share his definition and perspectives on three decades of global f Appreciative Inquiry work. David shares stories of how  Appreciative Inquiry first developed, how he's applied it in his own life, and how he's seen others use AI to create positive change in their lives and the world for over 30 years. Highlighting many of the themes we've discussed throughout this season, he answers questions you've likely been wondering. He also details the powerful role of language in bringing people together in a creative mode, practicing Appreciative Inquiry, and realizing transformation. David Cooperrider, PhD, is the Fairmount Minerals Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. Currently David serves as Faculty Director of the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. David is best known as the co-creator and creative thought leader of Appreciative Inquiry (AI). His founding work with AI is creating a positive revolution in the leadership of change; it is helping institutions all over the world discover the power of the strength-based approaches to multi-stakeholder innovation and collaborative design. Cooperrider's work is especially unique because of its ability to enable positive change, innovation, and sustainable design in systems of large and complex scale. Episode Highlights: The origin story of the term “Appreciative Inquiry”. Why the “whole system” approach is so important in the Appreciative Inquiry model. “Words create worlds.” – What is the meaning behind that phrase? Reframing as a core principle of Appreciative Inquiry & how David brought reframing to life in his own health journey. Why storytelling is a powerful tool and a core part of any appreciative process. Appreciative questions you can take with you into work, relationships, personal health, and more. Join us next season for more conversations, stories, and guests who are Inspiring Impacts all over the world! Did this episode inspire or impact you? Want to make an impact on us? If so, SHARE this episode with a friend, leave us a 5-star rating on Apple Podcasts, and follow Inspiring Impacts wherever you listen to podcasts! Resources & Previous Episodes Mentioned: More about David's work and writing: https://www.davidcooperrider.com  David's commentary on the original AI article he and Suresh Srivastva published https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S1475-9152(2013)0000004001/full/html UN Global Compact Appreciative Inquiry Summit: https://aicommons.champlain.edu/educational-material/united-nations-global-compact-leaders-summit/  Making Change Easy: The Tiniest Ai Summit in the World.  This article details David's personal health journey using AI reframing as an approach AI and the United Religions Initiative (URI) http://www.theinterfaithobserver.org/journal-articles/2019/5/13/appreciative-inquiry-and-the-united-religions-initiative Ame Lambert: add link when live Jackie Wong: add link when live Liz Vogel: https://bit.ly/43IjfSz Luc Verheijen: https://bit.ly/43KO7Sg Tojo Thatchenkery: add link when live Ellen Drolette: https://bit.ly/44HAgOc Yabome Gilpin-Jackson: https://bit.ly/47aQjWc Ronald Fry: https://bit.ly/44GXN1F Inspiring Quotes: “Appreciative Inquiry is all about the search for the true, the good, the better, the possible.” “We grow and we become what we most deeply, frequently, and most powerfully ask questions about.” “There's a big difference between eliminating something and enabling something and you can't enable what you can't talk about it.” “We've underestimated the role of the positive in human systems… What good is hope, inspiration, and joy as it relates to growing into a changed person, growing into a transformed organization?” “People don't resist change, they resist being changed by others. We are hardwired to love change when it's done in a way that brings forward hope… joy… learning.” What is Appreciative Inquiry? Appreciative Inquiry, sometimes referred to as “the other AI”, is one of the best kept secrets behind meaningful and lasting change at organizations. The AI approach is strength-based, meaning it focuses on identifying and leveraging successes to solve problems, rather than focusing on trying to fix individual failures.

Appreciative Inquiry is all about the search for the true, the good, the better, the possible, and everything that gives life to living human and ecological systems. Learn about creating the future from the ‘surround sound' of our core strengths and how to make positive change at scale with David Cooperrider the father of Appreciative Inquiry. He talks about his experiences in engaging large groups in addressing difficult and challenging questions or business issues in a way that creates breakthrough thinking and action! AND creates organizational transformation that is deeper, more meaningful and sustainable! Appreciative Inquiry has revolutionized the field of organizational development- hear about it from the person who started it all, and why he did. A Podcast by Tec Sounds. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

Retrouvez également "Pas Si Simple..." sur :La newsletter : https://melusinerh.substack.com/Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/@MelusineRH--------------------------L'approche positive est un sujet important pour comprendre les difficultés rencontrées avec des méthodes plus classiques. Je vous ai donc préparé un premier épisode pour vous expliquer en quoi ça consiste et pourquoi des entreprises comme DANONE s'y sont mises. Et vous retrouverez la semaine prochaine un second épisode pour aller plus loin sur la méthode qui permet de mettre en pratique les organisations. Les originesL'approche positive a été développée dans les années 1980 par David Cooperrider et Suresh Srivastva, qui se sont inspirés du travail de la psychologue Barbara Frederickson.Ils ont construit leur recherche en partant du constat que les méthodes traditionnelles de résolution de problème avaient souvent des résultats décevants. Barbara Erikson a mis en avant que l'optimisme et l'appréciation positive sont importants dans le développement du bien-être et de la performance des individus et des organisations.C'est à dire qu'il est plus efficace de changer une personne ou une organisation en regardant ses forces et ses réussites plutôt qu'en se concentrant sur ses problèmes et ses échecs.Le cercle vertueux : L'approche positive permet de provoquer des émotions positives en allant chercher nos forces et nos réussites. Une fois les émotions positives en place, elles influencent nos comportements. On va chercher à renforcer ces émotions par nos actions positives. Ces actions vont à leur tour déclencher d'autres émotions positives et ainsi de suite. C'est un système très puissant pour aider les personnes et les organisations à changer de comportement. Les bénéficesLes bénéfices de l'approche positives sont nombreux, pour une organisation on peut retrouver : Une amélioration de la performance. Une meilleure coopération et une meilleure collaboration des salariés. Une meilleure communication globale.Une réduction des conflits. Un bien être plus présent. Retrouvez toute l'approche détaillée dans l'épisode 19 du podcast !Bonne écoute, et à jeudi prochain !

In this episode, we speak to the Country Representative of the Global Green Growth Institute to Rwanda (GGGI Rwanda) -Mr. Okechukwu Daniel Ogbonnaya, an International Development Professional with practical knowledge on the institutional dimension on climate change and adaptation in developing countries. He has also acquired knowledge management expertise supporting the co-construction of knowledge between the national and international development actors/organisations through learning, listening, responding to and disseminating the knowledge generated during Green Growth Planning and Implementation.  Mr. Ogbonnaya tells us how they are taking on issues related to entrepreneurship, unemployment and business to another level of thinking by creating awareness that we can change how business is done today through transitioning to a more sustainable business model, Green Growth and Greenpreneurship.   Book recommendations; The Business of Building a Better World by David Cooperrider and Audrey Selian. Podcast- sustain267 hosted by Pato Kelesitse. 

Have you ever heard the old cliché of the strategic plan that sits on the shelf gathering dust? Haven't we all? But it's a cliche for a reason–because it has been true for so long.But a better question is: Why is it true?In this episode, Tucker Wannamaker, CEO of THRIVE IMPACT, and Sarah Fanslau, Chief of Impact, discuss how newer approaches to strategic planning can help improve culture, increase impact, and ensure that the old cliché doesn't apply to your nonprofit.We talk about and define these approaches, including Appreciative Inquiry and co-creation, and share how, when combined, they can help organizations actually shift how they address and deal with change over time.This episode will help you take strategic planning out of the board room and bring it into the break room–where it has belonged all along.LINKSTHRIVE IMPACTThe Case for Appreciative InquiryWhat is Appreciative Inquiry? on PositivePsychology.comBuilding the Co-creative Enterprise on Harvard Business ReviewThe Drucker InstituteDr. David Cooperrider

Learn about creating the future from the ‘surround sound' of our core strengths and how to make positive change at scale with David Cooperrider the father of Appreciative Inquiry. He talks about his experiences in engaging large groups in addressing difficult and challenging questions or business issues in a way that creates breakthrough thinking and action! AND creates organizational transformation that is deeper, more meaningful and sustainable! Appreciative Inquiry has revolutionized the field of organizational development- hear about it from the person who started it all, and why he did. A Podcast by Tec Sounds. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

Our words are what often help us to frame whether we see the world as a set of problems or opportunities. Communications experts Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres believe that anyone can create meaningful and productive conversations that can be catalysts for change. It comes down to asking the right questions and approaching challenging conversations with creativity. Longtime friends and colleagues, they are co-authors of Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement. For decades, Jackie and Cheri have counseled individuals, companies, institutions, and other organizations on how to use two simple practices to make every conversation count. In this episode, Jackie and Cheri offer the tools and techniques you need to have conversations worth having. (Appreciative Inquiry is an approach developed by David Cooperrider. It fosters positive change in organizations and communities.) GUEST BIOS: Jackie Stavros has more than 30 years of leadership, strategy, organization development and change management experience, and is the creator of SOAR – a strategy to help organizations create meaningful conversations about opportunities and positive change.  she is a professor at Michigan's Lawrence Technological University College of Business and IT and a senior specialist in Appreciative Inquiry. Jackie earned her doctorate in management from Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Her master's in business administration comes from Michigan State University. She earned her bachelor's degree at Wayne State University. She lives in Brighton, MI, with her husband, Paul, and their kids, Ally and Adam, as well as their dog, Rex. Cheri B. Torres specializes in leadership, team development, and whole system strategic planning. She is the lead catalyst at Collaborative by Design, a consulting firm that she founded in 2009. She's taught thousands of trainers and teachers around the world in the use and practice of Experiential Learning, Appreciative Inquiry, and other strengths-based processes. She has worked in many sectors, including corporate, government, education, and nonprofit, focusing on shared leadership, teamwork, and collective impact. She holds a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Tennessee, as well as a master's in transpersonal psychology. She lives in Asheville, NC, with her husband Michael, and their dog, Annabelle, and cat, Ziggy.  LINKS:Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful EngagementYes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive Paperback, by Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin, and Robert Cialdini The Petrified Wood Principle Follow us on Twitter @speakgoodpodCheck out our blogGot an episode idea?

David L. Cooperrider has proved that it's in finding strengths that we render weaknesses irrelevant. David Cooperrider is the Professor of Appreciative Inquiry at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. He serves as faculty Director of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. He is best known for his pioneering theory on ‘Appreciative Inquiry' and has served as advisor to senior executives in business and societal leadership roles, including projects with Nobel Laureates such as William Jefferson Clinton, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Kofi Annan. In 2017 David received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the OD Network. He has also served as strategic advisor to a wide variety of organizations including Apple, Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, Wal-Mart as well as American Red Cross, and the American Hospital Association. David Cooperrider is said to be a giant of generosity and discovery as well as one of the most outstanding scholars of our generation! I can't think of anyone better to teach us how we can rethink solving the problems by using Appreciataive Inquiry. [00:01 - 7:03] Opening Segment I introduce David Cooperrider Bio David shares a bit about himself [07:04 - 26:50] Rethinking How We Solve Problems By Using “Appreciative Inquiry” David give us an intro to the definition of Appreciative Inquiry We become what we ask questions about The WAY we ask questions as a focus A strength based approach using curiosity “The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths in ways that make a system's weaknesses irrelevant.” - Peter F. Drucker AI is a tool to accomplish this The power of wholeness in human systems How it applies to companies and organizations AI derives from ‘design thinking' We need designed democracy not just dialogue How AI can apply to your own professional lives and organizations Taking away the impulse of focusing on weaknesses Capitalize on strength Organizations are not problems to be solved They are miracles of human relationship An opportunity to connect to humanity They are universes of strengths filled with imagination Not “what's wrong,” but “What gives life?” AI reveals infinite potential The example of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Using AI to bring the whole organization together Market value of over $24B Helped create the “Fair Trade Movement” How AI is being used to create peace across the world [26:51 - 48:15] Appreciative Inquiry in Our Own Lives Challenging “The Deficit Based Theory of Change” People don't fundamentally resist change We are hardwired for joy through growth Think of your high-point moments of coming together The Continuity Question: what are the most important qualities you need to keep We are more open to disruption when we know the values will sustain Give good wings to the truth of stories Uniting together under appreciative inquiry You don't need to solve the earth's problems We need to connect Our core task is to discover our purpose and live it out Seeing things that no one else can see: Appreciative Intelligence Wake up your appreciative eye Bring out the best in humanity and amplify our future on The Goodness Exchange More information on how you can join in below [48:16 - 59:53] Putting AI into Action David talks about what to do next with this information The rising of the science of positivity Positive emotions reverse past patterns of negativity Positivity is like an “undo” button We can't allow the planet to fail Business is a force for positive change Innovation in leadership is growing exponentially [59:54 - 1:05:41] Closing Segment How to connect with David and his work Links below Final announcements Tweetable Quotes: “As human systems, we become what we ask questions about.” - David L. Cooperrider “My sense of hope goes up every time we have the courage to bring up this system into the room… There is something about the magic of wholeness that brings out our ability to listen.” - David L. Cooperrider “Stories have wings and they fly from mountain top to mountain top.” - David L. Cooperrider Resources Mentioned: Books: Appreciative Intelligence Podcasts: Mo Gawdat Annemarie Shrouder Links: https://www.uri.org/ The New Change Equation (Video) Appreciative Inquire Commons AI Events Connect with David on LinkedIn and Facebook. Be sure to visit https://www.davidcooperrider.com/ and strengthen your Appreciative Inquiry! *Open Now! Your home for hope and personal path to more joy and less fear, will open with the launch of The Goodness Exchange! No one with good intentions and good ideas needs to feel alone ever again. The Goodness Exchange will be bringing out our BEST impulses as individuals and amplifying our collective genius! Conspiracy of Goodness Links: The Goodness Exchange https://goodness-exchange.com/ Conspiracy of Goodness on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/goodnessnetwork/ Dr. Lynda's Book: https://www.dr-lynda.com/book/happiness EWC Ed: https://ed.everwideningcircles.com/

Wissen Sie nicht, dass die Welt voller Probleme ist?“ fragte der negativ Denkende. „Aber die Welt ist auch voller Lösungen von Problemen.“, erwiderte der positiv Denkende. Appreciative Inquiry (AI) ist eine Methode, in der die wertschätzende Befragung (oder Erkundung) ein zentrales Element bildet. Sie wurde 1980 von David Cooperrider von der Case Western Reserve University in den USA entwickelt. Die Grundidee basiert auf der These, dass jeder Mensch und jede Organisation Positives und Motivierendes in der Vergangenheit erlebt haben. Die Art und Weise, sowie die „Richtung“, wie Menschen und Systeme sich daran erinnern und welche Fragen sie dazu stellen, bestimmen maßgeblich, ob unsere Erinnerungen eher problem- oder lösungsorientiert sind. AI konzentriert sich auf die Stärken, das Positive, das Potenzial eines Systems (z.B. Unternehmen, Organisation, Person). Der Einsatz von AI bietet sich überall dort an, wo Verhaltensweisen oder Fähigkeiten weiterentwickelt werden sollen, oder wo die Zukunft eines Systems neu entworfen und neu gestaltet werden soll. Das Kernelement von AI ist das „Wertschätzende Interview“. Hier direkt reinhören: https://redenistsilber.de/podcast.php

http://berrettkoehler.ontraport.com/t?orid=199504&opid=12 David L. Cooperrider is the Fairmount Minerals Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. Professor Cooperrider is past President of the National Academy of Management's OD Division and has lectured and taught at Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, Katholieke University in Belgium, MIT, University of Michigan, Cambridge and others. Currently David serves as Faculty Director of the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. The center's core proposition is that sustainable value creation is the business opportunity of the 21st century, indeed that every social and global issue of our day is an opportunity to ignite industry leading innovation, eco-entrepreneurship, and new sources of value.

Angie Brainard, EVP of Talent Management with Right Management Florida/Caribbean is our guest this week. She discusses David Cooperrider's work on the five principles of Appreciative Inquiry (AI): Positive - Positive questions enact positive change. Constructionist - Words create worlds. Poetic - Life is expressed through stories. Simultaneity - Inquiry creates change. Anticipatory - Imagination drives action. Subscribe to the Show On Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/landed-advice-on-landing-the-job-of-your-dreams/id1478513628 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3OReMwjKcX89oMc1iWKtaR?si=8aeAsyuHS5q31txpjUqm8g On the Stitcher App: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/lee-silverstein/landed-advice-on-landing-the-job-of-your-dreams?refid=stpr. Follow Right Management Via Our Website: https://www.rightflorida.com/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/right-management-florida-caribbean/ On Twitter: https://twitter.com/RightFlorida On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RightManagementFlorida/ Email the show - podcast@rightflorida.com

Hey Librarians!  Thank you for tuning in for this episode of the podcast. It means so much to me that you're listening. You can find complete show notes for today's episode at masterfullibrarian.com/ep-13.In my episode, Eight Proven Ways to Motivate and Inspire Your Library Team, I talked about asking your employees for their ideas and really listening to them.  If you haven't listened to that episode, you can find it and download it at masterfullibrarian.com/ep-9. You can also find the podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.But I know many of you are saying to yourselves something like “I ask my staff for input all the time, but almost no one volunteers ideas.” Or you might be thinking that your staff has given lots of feedback about what needed to be changed or made better, but you've gotten nowhere with solutions. Today, I have a solution for you – ask better questions.If you've ever been involved with a strategic planning process, and I'm sure you have,  you know that you frequently begin with a SWOT analysis.  If you're not familiar with that acronym, it stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Obstacles, and Threats. In this process, you assess these four aspects of your library or organization.But here's the problem with that tool – you probably already all have a really good idea of what those things are. Especially the obstacles and threats.  You and your staff are very familiar with your challenges and may talk and think about them a lot. And I'm willing to guess that many, if not most, of them haven't been overcome or neutralized.The solution – ask more powerful questions.Powerful framing questions don't have straight forward answers.  They're open-ended and meaningful. They could be called adaptive questions because they evolve and change and grow as you discuss them. They can't be answered with a simple solution.  They require creativity and insight. Asking these powerful framing questions is called Appreciative Inquiry. The process was developed by David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva, two professors at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in the 1980's. Cooperrider recognized that “people move in the direction of their conversations”.  What that means for you is that problem-centered questions, such as “Why aren't more teens attending our programs?”  or “Why won't the Language Arts teachers collaborate with library staff?” keep a group stuck in the problem.  They don't invite fresh viewpoints and creative thinking.What Appreciate Inquiry – and appreciative questions do – is to lead us into considering opportunities. In their book, Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership, Ed Morrison and his co-authors from the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab say that “If we focus on opportunities, we make sure that we do not fall into the every deepening chasm fo problem analysis.  We have the opportunity to think instead about possible alternatives.”When engaging your staff in an effort to address library challenges and develop innovative and engaging strategies, powerful open-ended framing, or appreciative, questions are your most effective tool. For complete show notes, visit masterfullibrarian.com/ep-13

When I first read about AI and facilitation, I was worried the robots were coming for my job… but then I spoke with Laure Cohen van Delft and realised AI is a most welcome addition to our profession!This is because AI, in this context, refers to Appreciative Inquiry – a framework and approach that facilitates purposeful change in organisations. The approach is centred on outcomes that grow in value (Appreciate) and a curious mindset (Inquiry).AI encompasses many facets of other facilitative approaches that are joined together by the belief that every living system has potential for growth.Laure's explanation of AI is fascinating – a truly unique perspective – and every facilitator can learn something from her.Find out about:How Laure utilises LEGO Serious Play within her workshopsWhat Appreciative Inquiry (AI) isHow AI can be practiced in workshopsWhy AI can be so effectiveThe outcomes made possible by designing a workshop around AIClick here to download the free 1-page summaryDon't miss the next show: Subscribe to the show with your favourite podcast player.Feeling inspired by the conversation in this episode? We can have our own - take a seat at my virtual table as part of a Mastermind Group.A huge thank you must go to SessionLab, the sponsor of Workshops Work. Claim your free two months of SessionLab Pro now – this deal is exclusive to Workshops Work listeners!Questions and Answers[01:44] When did you first call yourself a facilitator?[03:06] What does facilitation mean to you?[06:08] What have you learned from LEGO Serious Play?[09:55] How do you define Appreciative Inquiry (AI)?[14:34] Is there a specific structure to AI?[24:05] How do we put the principles of AI together in a workshop?[38:08] What is your favourite question to ask in a workshop?[42:06] What makes a workshop fail?[48:10] What is one thing you want listeners to take away from this episode?Links to checkDavid L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative InquiryAI CommonsThe 5 principles of AI Essentials of Appreciative Inquiry by David Cooperrider, Diana Whitney and Jacqueline Stavros, 2008Encyclopedia of Positive Questions second edition by Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, David Cooperrider and Brian S. Kaplin, 2014Connect with LaureLaure's websiteFacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Welcome to this episode on Appreciative Inquiry for Facilitators. In this podcast I explain what Appreciative Inquiry is, how it is a strengths-based approach, and how it can be useful for facilitators. I share an Appreciative Inquiry facilitation process and a variety of tools, techniques and activities that you can use in your own facilitation. If you'd like to download the free toolkit, go to the Content Studio on my website here, scroll down to Facilitation Toolkits and you will find it there. To find out more about the academic theory on Appreciative Inquiry, look up the work of David Cooperrider here.  

My guest today is David Cooperrider, renowned for his research in appreciative inquiry, a strength-based approach to creating change. In this interview, you will hear how appreciative inquiry is being used to build a better world. David explains how organizations can align strengths in ways that make the system’s weaknesses irrelevant. He also shares how individuals and organizations can use this life-centric approach to go through the steps of his new P.O.S.I.T.I.V.E change model. This interview was produced in partnership with the Canadian Positive Psychology Association and the 3rd Canadian Conference on Positive Psychology. Tune in to hear more! Connect with Wayne Baker:  Website: www.davidcooperrider.com Twitter: @Dlc6David You’ll Learn [2:25] - David explains the basics of appreciative inquiry [4:52] - What you and your organization can gain from this positive change approach [5:27] - Rethinking our approach to change. [7:05] - Step P - Positive re-framing [9:30] - Step O - Omni search and bringing in all of the strengths at every level [10:50] - Step S - Strengthen the strengths [12:28] - Step I - Imagining our future [14:40] - Steps T & I - Translate and improvise [16:30] - Step V - Valuing progress moments [18:02] - Step E - Embedding the change and reversing our mindset on change [20:50] - The lightning round with David Cooperrider Your Resources: DavidCooperrider.com The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram Canadian Conference On Positive Psychology Thanks for listening!  Thanks so much for joining me again this week.  If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post. Please leave an honest review of the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them.  And don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It’s free! You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing. Until next time, take care!  Thank you David!

Welcome to Episode 20 of Agile Digital Business.  Recorded on the move with my Insignia Lavalier mic, my iPhone and the BossJock app. You may hear a bit of air handling noise and construction work in the background. I'll be back in our music studio in a future weekend for the recording and editing of the next episode. I am Vickie Maris, author, speaker and digital marketer focused on helping businesses prepare for the voice platform.  Today, I'm at the CMED Conference - Conference on Management and Executive Development - and wanted to spend a few minutes reflecting on topics in the sessions I've been attending. I just finished speaking on a panel in a concurrent session where I shared background about one of the executive education programs that represent for the university. We had some very fun conversation about relationship marketing. During the Q and A, I recommended Mark Schaefer's new book, Marketing Rebellion: May the Most Human Company Win. I was also excited to learn that a few of the universities represented in the room have podcasts - I know I'm biased, but I'm such a believer in a podcast being a fantastic way to provide content for clients and prospects of your programs. It's a way for me to share the content with you as well as to get it to stick in my own mind better. As a lifelong learner who loves to teach others, it's important to me that I not let the nuggets of wisdom and insight drift away in to the pages of a notebook or iPad, never to be viewed again. I often will create a short video for my YouTube channel, LinkedIn profile, Twitter handle or Facebook page to reflect on key takaways, but I also want to share a few takeaways here with you in the podcast. I have a longer interview scheduled with Ali El-Ammori whom you heard in Episode 19 after he had participated in an executive education program where led a session about leadership in a digital era and the topic of preparing for the voice platform in particular. Another program participant, Bobby Kovey, also spoke with me on the mic. His episode is on the agenda for the next few weeks of the show. Kane Simms, podcast host of VUX World, will be talking with me next week, and I'm getting a conversation scheduled with my colleagues Scot and Susan Westwater who run the agency, Pragmatic Digital. Oh my goodness, I'm so excited about this topic and about all of the interesting guests who have agreed to chat with me on the show! It's exciting to me to be at this milestone of Episode 20 for the podcast. I started out the show a couple years ago talking about online courses and learning experience design, which was my focus at the university at the time. But after a slight career shift, I put the podcast on hold for about a year as I got my feet on the ground and a new topic of interest began to unfold. It was when I was putting the marketing plan together to let people know about the audiobook of my latest book, that I started asking questions of our Amazon Alexa about my book, and found out that I needed to learn how to put that information at Alexa's virtual fingertips. Season 2 of the podcast is my journey of learning about the voice platform and sharing that information with you, so that you can be preparing to meet your customers at their point of inquiry. learn more about how our customers are using their voices first in search. OK, let me take a few minutes to share with you several of the interesting takeaways from the CMED sessions. The opening keynote with David Cooperrider was fantastic. David is co-author, along with Diana Whitney, of the book, Appreciative Inquiry. He's an author of other books as well. I mention the Appreciative Inquiry book here as it is one I've used for the foundation of session I've taught on the subject. The concepts have helped me keep a positive focus in the way I interact with colleagues at work, in the podcasting space and students I work with on our farm with the llamas. I was inspired yesterday to re-read the book.  He spoke of the work of Barbara Frederickson, University of North Carolina. In my notes, I captured the following quote, "as people cultivate more hope and joy, we become more intelligent and we get more creative." Another quote I wrote down is "the more we touch hope, it changes the actual structure of the neuron patterns and can even change bio patterns that [otherwise] lead to heart disease." He shared statistics about the world population growth and how trends are showing that more are moving in to the middle class group. It's expected that there will by 9.7 billion on the planet by 2050. In data from Brookings, David told us that 1 person escapes extreme poverty every second; 5 people per second are entering the moddle class; the rich are growing too but at a slower rate of 1 person every 2 seconds. A quote from David Cooperrider, "Middle class drive demand in a global economy; and middle class are far more demanding of their governments." He said that 2/3rds of consumption come from the middle class. Compared to today, the middle class will add 1.7 billion more people to their numbers by 2030. I'm going to add a sidenote here. I predict that this is an indicator of how important it is for your company's products and services to be able to be found on voice search. It this very large group of consumers is going to be driving demand - combine that with using their voice first in search - then we need to be showing up in their searches. David also shared with great feeling that the number of people living in extreme poverty around the world is decreasing by 217,000 each day, and that 92% of the world's children have access to education (this is compared to about 40% 20 years ago). In an concurrent session about the technique of reflection in the executive education classroom, Jon Branch, University of Michigan, shared his model of learning design. The participants in the room had a very interesting discussion about reflection and instructional as well as technology tools available for conducting moments of reflection. In honor of that session, I would love to have you pause this episode, as long as you're not driving or doing a workout in the moment, and write a key takeaway from this episode that you can share in your social media. Please include the hashgtag, #agiledigitalbiz, in your tweet or post, so that we can read each other's takeaways and share them out further. I would also love it if you left me a voicemail using the Speakpipe widget on my website at https://vickiemaris.com/contact The keynote session on Saturday morning was by Dr. David Flint. His company is the Value Creation Company. As an opener, he played a video of the song, The Company Way, from the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. It's a pretty hilarious duet by the mailroom manager and the lead in the show, Pierpont Finch. The music warmed my heart personally, as that was a musical I was in during my senior year of high school. If you've not seen the movie or the musical, I highly recommend it. David used the funny song to spur discussion about what company even means and how to create value and rareness as part of your value proposition, and to be on the alert for eroding factors that could take away from value or the rareness of your company, or the project you are working on.  We worked through questions related to his VReel model while in small groups. It was a very interesting session. In the concurrent before lunch, I participated as a speaker in the panel discussion about programs for development of executives in management and leadership. I got so energized in the sharing of ideas during the question/answer session. As I'm sure you know, networking with other participants is always a huge value-add at a conference. A lot of that took place during the breaks and the lunch. I'm brimming with ideas! I know, shocker, right! The keynote after lunch was a great session by Lauren C. Miller who is a leadership coach and instructor with Carnegie Mellon University. She had several very intriguing stories that stemmed from her coaching of an MBA student about resilience and energy management. She facilitated a discussion about how we individually determine if it's time to give up on something or if it's something that requires an extra dose of resilience. As I think of some of our group discussion yesterday, and if I think of this podcast as an example, what it needed was a partial pivot from its original topic. I have been so extremely energized to share information with you, that I'm excited about each upcoming episode and it pains me to have to wait until a weekend to have the time to carve out to create the content for you. As a digital marketer and relationship marketer, this topic of voice is a big one. There is a lot of content out there about voice app development and the tech side of things, but not a lot about how to make the shift in our organizations to prepare for it. That's what is driving me to glean content and process it for you, then deliver it in this show! Thanks for listening to Episode 20 of Agile Digital Business. If you'd like to give a shoutout to my husband, Scott Greeson, who creates the amazing music beds for my podcast, please check out his latest album, Riverside, on your favorite digital music player. You can find his tunes - and I'll list a few of them here - If I Had a Train, Suburban Boy, Moped Man, and two that we wrote together, Cutback Blues and Minnesota. They are all out at YouTube, iTunes, Amazon, Pandora, Spotify and other digital locations. Now, let's go out and Teach. Inspire. And, Connect!   https://vickiemaris.com http://scottgreesonmusic.com  

Episode 25 In this episode, we have the distinct pleasure of hosting Professor Freddie Crous, he is currently the Head of the Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management at the University of Johannesburg, and is well known for his contributions to Positive Industrial Psychology in general and in particular for applying Appreciative Inquiry in his personal life, teaching, research and consulting. He shares the details about the upcoming World Appreciative Inquiry conference in Nice and the profound impact David Cooperrider had on both his career and life. In this very problem focussed world we find ourselves in Appreciative enquiry and the invitational tentative generous method of teaching and learning seems more important than ever.   If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe and comment and check out our website www.omnicor.co.za for our blog and previous episodes.

Chip Conley is the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, an advisor to Airbnb and the author of 5 books, including his most recent work; Wisdom at Work: The Making of a Modern Elder https://amzn.to/2FGPUAI. In this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, he talks about wisdom, curiosity, and what it means to live a good life as you age.   Impact Theory is proudly sponsored by: The Jordan Harbinger Show: visit www.jordanharbinger.com/subscribe to start enjoying the show today! ButcherBox: Use the discount code: "TOM" at butcherbox.com to get 20$ off and FREE BACON Skillshare: Start learning on Skillshare today with 2 free months at skillshare.com/impacttheory Blinkist: Visit blinkist.com/IMPACT to try out the premium service completely free for 7 days!   SHOW NOTES: How Chip Conley lived and died 9 times within a 90 minute period [2:24] What he says about a divine intervention [5:10] Chip Conley talks about psychedelic experience and why art is at the center of life [6:15] How we’re being possessed by smartphone screens and not having real-life experiences anymore [8:11] How to “tap into” the atmosphere of burning man without going to a big festival [9:03] The nametags people wear without realizing it and the mindsets we carry about our lives [10:37] Chip Conley provides thoughts on the value of society. [12:40] The U-curve of happiness and how you get less happy each decade until mid-life [15:39] Why he joined AIRBNB at age 52 and became the modern elder [16:54] The value of energy, curiosity, passion. [18:54] Why pattern recognition is so important for living an awesome life [19:12] How to foster curiosity [21:25] The recipe for Chip Conley’s success [22:40] Check out appreciative inquiry [23:17] Why the difference between presence and absence is an iPhone. [25:54] Why presence is more valuable now than it’s ever been before [26:02] The ritual of burning man and the hero's journey [27:27] What’s interesting about life? [29:30] One of the most valuable questions in business is “what business are you in?” [32:41] Maslow’s hierarchy of needs [34:34] Why 5 of his friends committed suicide and what he took from that [38:05] The difference between attain mode vs. attune mode in life (important!) [39:37] Why he wants to make aging aspirational again [41:15]   QUOTES: “The more digital we get, the more ritual we need” [8:01] “The #1 thing that people have to do to understand their mindset is to first identify it, then imagine a different point of view for it, then own that new point of view for it, and then actually start talking from that new point of view.” [11:16] “The kind of questions that are asked in a leadership meeting tell me everything about the culture.” [24:08]   PEOPLE MENTIONED: Brian Chesky [6:36] David Cooperrider [23:17] Tim Ferriss https://bit.ly/2FypAta [26:45] Steve Jobs https://bit.ly/IN1Lf8 [31:17] Peter Drucker [32:39] Ted Levitt [32:41] Abraham Maslow [34:22] Viktor Frankl [34:23] Lao Tzu [34:34] Bill Gates [37:30]   BOOKS MENTIONED: “What Business Are You In?” Harvard Business Review https://bit.ly/1uUqakZ [32:41] Man’s Search For Meaning https://amzn.to/2FwKetL [34:56] Emotional Equations: Simple Steps for Creating Happiness + Success in Business + Life https://amzn.to/2CuLGJj [35:54]  

Conversations are at the core of how we interact. We all know that conversations influence us, but we rarely stop to think about how much impact they have on our well-being and our ability to thrive. How effective would you say that you are at having conversations that significantly and positively impact the lives of the people on the other side of those conversations? Jackie Stavros is the author of Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement, in which she teaches us how we can communicate better and flourish in all areas of our lives. When Jon Berghoff started the Flourishing Leadership Institute, he asked Dr. David Cooperrider for help. David’s response? "You need to talk to Jackie. She is a pioneer in the methodology of the work that I do." Jackie has since become a close mentor to Jon, a dear friend, and extraordinary at helping individuals and organizations to upgrade the conversations that they’re having. To get access to the full show notes, including the audio, transcript, and links to resources mentioned during this discussion, visit HalElrod.com/226

In this episode I recap the appreciative inquiry summit where over 800 delegates from all over the world gathered to be inspired and to decide how move forward in changing their part of the world with positive education and positive psychology. I had the amazing opportunity to interview Dr. Martin Seligman, the founder of positive psychology and ask him what needs to happen for positive psychology to reach more people in the world. I also got to interview the founder of Appreciative Inquiry, Dr. David Cooperrider who sets a beautiful vision for what the future will look like with a more positive foundation of young people world wide. I also was able to interview Jonny Liu from Tsinghua University (one of China's top universities) who is working to bring positive psychology to light in China. I spoke with Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, the founder of The Flourishing Center and the increasingly popular CAPP certification. Angela Reiner also honored me with her take on the future of happiness. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/morehappylife/support

Linda Robson is a scholar practitioner, blending work in executive education with consulting and coaching around the elevation of organizations and the individuals who work within them.  Linda received her Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University.  She studied with David Cooperrider and Ron Frey.  She is an advisor at the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value. Linda also helped write The Flourishing Enterprise: The New Spirit of Business.  In this conversation, you will hear Linda share her fascinating research on the language used by high performing teams and why the words we speak impact the results we are able to achieve particularly in organizational change programs. Linda also shares while simply being more positive is not enough, why we need to acknowledge the sense of loss that any change in our workplaces can bring and the practical things leaders can do to use language to improve people's wellbeing at work.  Connect with Linda Robson: Email - Linda.Robson@Case.edu You’ll Learn: [02:20] - Linda explains why Professor David Cooperrider believes her research will be so influential in helping organizations navigate change. [04:23] - Linda defines and describes mirror flourishing. [06:55] - Linda shares why language plays such a large role in our interactions with each other and our willingness to embrace and act upon change. [07:48] - Linda talks about what positive and negative language sounds like, in the workplace. [09:07] - Linda explains that the use of positive language is a missed opportunity. [12:18] - Linda shares what we can do to help leaders be more strategic in their language. [14:40] - Linda talks about the idea of some forms of negative language being helpful with change in workplaces. [20:20] - Linda explains what a flourishing enterprise looks like. [22:56] - The Lightning Round with Linda Robson. Your Resources: Care to Dare: Unleashing Astonishing Potential Through Secure Base Leadership - George Kohlrieser Taming Your Gremlin: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way - Rick Carson The Positive Organization: Breaking Free from Conventional Cultures, Constraints, and Beliefs - Robert E. Quinn Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining me again this week.  If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post.  Please leave an honest review for the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them.  And don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It’s free! You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing. Until next time, take care!  

I want to talk to you today about questions....beautiful, amazing, glorious questions. The questions we ask of both ourselves and other people can literally change the way we think, experience, perceive, act, connect and engage. But.....are we asking the right ones? Recently I attended the first part of a certification training I'm going through this year in appreciative inquiry called Leading with Experiential Appreciative Facilitation. This training is run by the amazing Jon Berghoff and the Flourishing Leadership Institute, based on the amazing work of Dr. David Cooperrider and has literally rocked my entire world (seriously, click the play button on this episode because you'll hear me get truly giddy!) Listen + subscribe on iTunes // Stitcher Ok, as I mentioned, I've become completely obsessed with diving into appreciative inquiry, so you're going to be seeing a lot more of it infused into everything I do....especially in the Boss Mom Retreat happening later this year in NC ;) Appreciative inquiry is truly an introduction into how to have better questions when designing group spaces, summits, retreats, meetings, etc. What AI does is it flips the way we talk about things from being focused on addressing the failures, challenges, and things we need to fix to focusing on recognizing, maximizing and leveraging the strengths. What I've learned is that if we only focus on the problems, challenges or obstacles and finding a fix for those, we will only ever help get people back to a neutral point, where they don't feel broken anymore. But what if we could take them beyond that point?? A quote that has been completely rocking my world lately is this: “The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths, making the system’s weaknesses irrelevant.” - Peter Drucker Leading for the future is all about strengths. If we focus on our strengths, on our aspirations, on where we want to go, and what we’ve just done to get ourselves to where we are so far, what would the world look like? What would our businesses and lives look like? Can you picture it? So how can we do that? Well, we need to reframe the way we think about the questions we ask. Oftentimes we will default to asking the questions that are easy, the ones everyone is always asking. But might it mean so much more if we actually stopped to really think about the questions we're asking, how they'll land and what kind of feedback or response they might produce? I'd challenge you to start asking yourself the following questions anytime you are posing a question to someone: Am I asking questions because I really care and wanting to know or understand more? Am I asking this question because I think I should ask it? Am I asking the questions that really need to be asked? We’ve gotta start digging deeper into the words we use. Are we speaking to people from their strengths? Are we helping people to see their future, what they want, what their dream will be? When we do this, it opens up this beautiful positive emotional attractor component of your brain that gets people thinking bigger, broader, and in a way that gets them past that neutral point and into this amazing space where they truly believe anything is possible. Which is totally where we want our kids to be, right? It starts with the questions we ask. Now, let’s get tactical to figure out how to actually go about knowing the right questions to ask and how to approach asking questions in our lives and businesses. 1. Determine where you are already asking questions in your business. Are you asking questions in surveys, calls to action, Facebook groups, intake forms, coursework, sales calls, webinars, Facebook ads, etc? 2. Assess the kinds of questions you're asking. Are you questions framed from the positive or the negative? Are you addressing someone's challenges, obstacles, problems or weaknesses? Our questions are meant to illicit response, and if you phrase them right, you'll get the kind of feedback that's really valuable. Here's a great personal example to get your wheels turning. I still have an email in my nurture sequence that I need to go back and change because I ask “What is your biggest challenge?” and rarely get responses. I'm convinced that's because it's vague and it’s framed from the negative perspective. Now all of a sudden the reader is thinking about their biggest challenge. Maybe they don’t even know what their biggest challenge is, but now I’ve just got them thinking about 10 things that aren’t going right for them. Maybe I can go and help them now, but holy moly - I don’t want to be the one that puts them in that negative space! Instead I’d love to ask a question like, “What moment can you remember of having a business and having a baby where you felt like you came alive? That you were really doing what you were meant to do and showing your children, even if they didn't understand it, that what you were doing was important?” I want women thinking about what they’re doing right more than what they’re doing wrong. I want our weaknesses to be irrelevant! I want us to be getting support from each other, and thinking so much about what we’re doing right and how to do more of that that it overshadows our weaknesses so they are irrelevant. I want to live in a world where that happens. 3. Change your questions. You have the power to change your approach to the questions you're asking! Figure out how you can make the switch from trying to fix problems and put out fires to how you can leverage and maximize people’s strengths. Referenced in the Show: Case Western Reserve University: One of the nation's best Flourishing Leadership Institute The Miracle Morning - Hal Elrod LEAF (Leading with Experiential Appreciative Facilitation) David Cooperrider The Appreciative Inquiry Commons (Just FYI, some of these links may be affiliate links, which means if you make a purchase using the links I may receive some love in return!) Sponsor Spotlight: Boss Mom Retreat It's coming ladies. Do you have your ticket yet?? If not, and you're still on the fence, let me tell you just a little bit about the amazingness that will be happening in Charlotte, North Carolina later this year.... 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2017 is off and running and the scramble has begun.  As 2016 reached fever pitch I got so tired of negative talk I was tuning out.  I was tired of being told how bad I was, how awful my life was, that my views were wrong that my existence was wrong.  Having been in the world of organizational development for my career, this is a bad foundation for change.  Today we look at the work of David Cooperrider and Appreciative Inquiry.  Today we learn how to focus on the positive.  Today it’s 3-for-Me!  Get today’s handout at MyValueTree.com and be back after weather and sports at WTIC1080 your Coaching Connection.

Sarah Lewis is the founder and managing director of Appreciating Change in the UK. Sarah consults for organizations around the world on how to effectively create sustainable change. In this conversation, you will hear Sarah talk about her philosophies on change and how she helps organizations through the change process. We discuss the questions that must be asked to unleash change. Often, the questions asked pertain to what is going wrong or what is broken. Instead, Sarah talks about the questions that need to be asked to unleash the power to move forward through positive change. Sarah also explains some other methodology for positive change, like World Cafe and Simu-Real. In the Lightning Round, Sarah shares several authors and books for which she has great appreciation. She also shares that “positivity is a state as well as a trait.”These methodologies are not about ignoring the negativity in life, but rather to help us get to a state where we are coping and thriving. You’ll Learn: [01:30] - Sarah shares the advice she gives organizations wanting to bring out the best in their people during the change process. [3:21] - Sarah talks about getting leaders to embrace a more system change, rather than a top-down implemented change. [07:10] - Sarah talks about the questions that need to be asked to unleash the power to move forward. [10:04] - Sarah talks about the burning platform and while that might be productive in the short-term, there is difficulty with sustaining that change. [16:27] - Sarah explains the World Cafe and Simu-Real methodologies for change. [22:45] - The Lightning Round with Sarah Lewis. Your Resources: Sarah Lewis’ Website Sarah Lewis’ books on Amazon Kim Cameron’s books David Cooperrider’s books Collaborating for Change: Appreciative Inquiry - David Cooperrider et al. The Change Handbook: The Definitive Resource on Today’s Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems - Peggy Holman and Tom Devane Thanks so much for joining me again this week. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post. Also, please leave an honest review for the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It’s free! Special thanks to Chris for joining me this week. Until next time, take care! Until next time, take care!

DKI EPISODE 14: APPRECIATIVE LIVING Appreciative living …I like to refer to is appreciative living as living the sweet life. No matter where you are whether you're driving right now or just kicking back at the end of your day or you're kicking off your morning, I am so glad that you're here to join us today. I want to share appreciative living with you.  I am certified as the appreciative inquiry facilitator. I want to tell you a little bit more about the process and what it means to me and how it can apply to your life, in your business, and to your organization. Appreciate is a verb; it means “to recognize the quality significance or magnitude of - appreciating their freedom. The second definition I found on dictionary.com is “to be fully aware of or sensitive to; realize –I appreciate your problems.” The third definition is to be thankful or show gratitude for – I appreciate your help.” According to David Cooperrider (the Father of Appreciative Inquiry) and Diane Whitney, and The Change Handbook, “Appreciative Inquiry is the cooperative search for the best in people and their organizations, and the world around them. It involves systematic discovery of what gives the system “life” and when it's most effective and capable of economic, ecological, and human terms. Appreciative Inquiry (also known as AI) involves the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen the system's capacity to heightened positive potential. It mobilizes inquiry through crafting “unconditional positive questions” often involving hundreds and sometimes thousands of people.” It is a very powerful approach to shifting the way people think about things the questions they ask. During my practicum, one of my greatest learnings was that when people complain about a situation. This is an opportunity to take a step back. What I learned - you know these people are still complaining about this process and you try to explain it to them. It was not the process that was the issue it was how they felt about their environment and how the organization was approaching things. I went back to my trainers, I learned that when people are complaining about something we take a step back and re-frame the question so that they understand it's a positive question. Allow them to vent for the moment and then say, “I can see that you have a vision of what the ideal would look like; I would love for you to tell me more.” You can you lose their complaint and re-frame it into an unconditional positive question so they can share with you what they see what is the vision that they see as possible.  You might have some extra fruit some labor. Appreciative Inquiry is not a traditional approach. “The traditional approach to change is to look for a problem, do a diagnosis, and find a solution. The primary focus is not on what is wrong or broken; since we look for problems; we find them. By paying attention to problems, we emphasize and amplify them.”– Sue Hammond, The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry Whatever you focus on expands; your primary focus should be what is working. What I love about Appreciating Inquiry, it allows you to really think about the possibilities. Our next podcast is actually talking about imagining the possibilities. What you focus on you get more of, so it really important to think about what it is that you want. What are the best experiences you have had in your life so far? With Appreciative Living, the belief is that we do not just experience reality that we create that reality through our conversations with people, the way we think, and how we interact with others. Think about your interactions, you helped create those experiences. If you're experiencing tension, you can also create a way to have greater peace in your life by approaching it and finding out some of those assumptions that you're making. It easier to ask someone if your perception is correct than letting something gnaw at you for a couple days.

David Cooperrider is renowned for his research in appreciative inquiry, a strength-based approach to creating change. David shares how appreciative inquiry is being used to build a better world. David explains how organizations can align strengths in ways that make the system’s weaknesses irrelevant. He also shares how individuals and organizations can use this life-centric approach to go through the steps of this positive change model. This interview was produced in partnership with the Canadian Positive Psychology Association and the 3rd Canadian Conference on Positive Psychology. Tune in to hear more! Website: www.davidcooperrider.com Twitter: @Dlc6David You’ll Learn: [2:25] - David explains basics of appreciative inquiry [4:52] - What you and your organization can gain from this positive change model [5:27] - People don’t resist change. People love change. [7:05] - Positive re-framing [9:30] - Omni search and bringing in all of the strengths at every level [10:50] - Strengthen the strengths [12:28] - Imagining our future [14:40] - Translate and improvise [16:30] - Valuing progress moments [18:02] - Embedding the change and reversing our mindset on change [20:50] - The lightning round with David Cooperrider Links from this discussion: DavidCooperrider.com The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram Canadian Conference On Positive Psychology Thanks for Listening! Thanks so much for joining me again this week. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post. Also, please leave an honest review for the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings for the show, and I read each and every one of them. And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It’s free! Special thanks to David for joining me this week. Until next time, take care.

AI is more frequently known as Artificial intelligence, but in the context of organisational change I am focusing this episode on Appreciative Inquiry. But, apart from the simple assumption of showing some appreciation to another person, what is it? David Cooperrider and colleagues have claimed this to be a uniquely strengths-based approach to the leadership and management of organisational change; and also that strengths-based management may just be the management innovation of our time! However, the concept of change does not sit easily with everyone; for one thing, it can give the impression that there is never enough time to implement some seriously good ideas before the next management initiative is passed down. In this episode I outline the strengths credentials of Appreciative Inquiry, its 4-dimensional cycle, as well as the 5 principles and 6 essential conditions for it to occur. It may require skilled facilitation by a trained practitioner, but it also offers all of us a positive language to adopt and apply to our own thinking about the organisations we presently inhabit.

IVOH FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR   Judy Rodgers is here!   BTC Host Kathy Barrett interviews Judy Rogers, the founding director of Images and Voices of Hope on how a conversation in 1990 with180 media people and related fields grew into a foundation inspiring regional and global networks of journalists, media professionals and artists to create positive and constructive world media.   Judy Rogers, a visionary entrepreneur, has worked in the fields of business, education and media for over thirty years.  Along with David Cooperrider, she founded the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit in the business school at Case Western Reserve University and most recently co-authored the book, "Somthing Beyond Greatness," with Gayatri Naraine.   TUNE IN TO BE INSPIRED   TUNE IN TO BE INFORMED   Intro - Mitchell Geller   "Night And The Music," intro music produced, written and performed by Barbara Thies and Andrew Barrett.

IVOH FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR   Judy Rodgers is here!   BTC Host Kathy Barrett interviews Judy Rogers, the founding director of Images and Voices of Hope on how a conversation in 1990 with180 media people and related fields grew into a foundation inspiring regional and global networks of journalists, media professionals and artists to create positive and constructive world media.   Judy Rogers, a visionary entrepreneur, has worked in the fields of business, education and media for over thirty years.  Along with David Cooperrider, she founded the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit in the business school at Case Western Reserve University and most recently co-authored the book, "Somthing Beyond Greatness," with Gayatri Naraine.   TUNE IN TO BE INSPIRED   TUNE IN TO BE INFORMED   Intro - Mitchell Geller   "Night And The Music," intro music produced, written and performed by Barbara Thies and Andrew Barrett.

IVOH FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR   Judy Rodgers is here!   BTC Host Kathy Barrett interviews Judy Rogers, the founding director of Images and Voices of Hope on how a conversation in 1990 with180 media people and related fields grew into a foundation inspiring regional and global networks of journalists, media professionals and artists to create positive and constructive world media.   Judy Rogers, a visionary entrepreneur, has worked in the fields of business, education and media for over thirty years.  Along with David Cooperrider, she founded the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit in the business school at Case Western Reserve University and most recently co-authored the book, "Somthing Beyond Greatness," with Gayatri Naraine.   TUNE IN TO BE INSPIRED   TUNE IN TO BE INFORMED   Intro - Mitchell Geller   "Night And The Music," intro music produced, written and performed by Barbara Thies and Andrew Barrett.

IVOH FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR   Judy Rodgers is here!   BTC Host Kathy Barrett interviews Judy Rogers, the founding director of Images and Voices of Hope on how a conversation in 1990 with180 media people and related fields grew into a foundation inspiring regional and global networks of journalists, media professionals and artists to create positive and constructive world media.   Judy Rogers, a visionary entrepreneur, has worked in the fields of business, education and media for over thirty years.  Along with David Cooperrider, she founded the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit in the business school at Case Western Reserve University and most recently co-authored the book, "Somthing Beyond Greatness," with Gayatri Naraine.   TUNE IN TO BE INSPIRED   TUNE IN TO BE INFORMED   Intro - Mitchell Geller   "Night And The Music," intro music produced, written and performed by Barbara Thies and Andrew Barrett.