Clik here to view.
Appreciative Inquiry: better ways of doing the Design stage
Read almost any textbook on Appreciative Inquiry and you will find a frustrating vagueness about what to actually do in the Design stage. This stage, which follows on from the Discovery of what is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Appreciative Inquiry for teambuilding
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) makes an excellent format for teambuilding. It can be very rewarding for a team to work through the 4-D cycle, each stage building on the one before. A day (or slightly...
View ArticleIntroduction to Positive Deviance
A recent article in the Guardian by Jane Dudman gives a good introduction to the Positive Deviance model, a method of solving ‘intractable’ social and organisational problems through the principle...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Using the NLP ‘Logical Levels’ model with Appreciative Inquiry
Robert Dilts, originator of the ‘Logical Levels’ model – photo by Christian Aubry via Wikimedia Commons The Design phase is sometimes described as “building a bridge from the ‘best of what is’...
View ArticleTeaching Squares – a non-threatening way to improve performance without feedback
One of the problems with using feedback to improve performance is that it can be scary. Most people do care, to a greater or lesser extent, about what others think of them. The potential for loss of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Open Course Profit Calculator: get the finances of your open courses...
If you run open courses or workshops, you won’t want to be without the Open Course Profit Calculator. It’s a must-have spreadsheet-based tool that tells you exactly what how many course participants...
View ArticleHow to use Appreciative Inquiry to tackle ‘dull’ topics
Appreciative Inquiry is unrivalled in my experience as a way of engaging people in change. You can feel the atmosphere in a group change within moments of starting a round of appreciative interviews,...
View ArticleHow to generate ‘word clouds’ from the output from AI events
Wordle.net is a free web-based application that generates ‘word clouds’ from whatever text you paste into it. That makes it great for creating a quick visual summary of the themes, values, wishes etc...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Appreciative evaluations – a different format for Appreciative Inquiry
If you are looking for a way of using Appreciative Inquiry for evaluation, or you would like to have a business-friendly alternative to the standard 4-D/5-D model, this may be what you’re looking for....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free webinar – Leading With Emotional Intelligence January 28th, 2013
I’m running a free webinar sharing some emotional intelligence tips for improving the emotional climate and hence the performance of your team on January 28th 2013 (next Monday! – 10:00am EST | 3:00pm...
View Article
