Thoroughly revised and updated new edition of the best-selling guide to implementing the popular change methodology, Appreciative Inquiry, in organizations of all sizes and sectors.

A Practioner’s Guide for Leading Large-Group Change

A proven program for organizational change, illustrated with real-life examples from companies and community groups.

Discover exciting new techniques to open discussions, exchange ideas, agree on a plan, and follow up on your goals. You'll learn simple tips on how to keep your team on track with a can-do attitude. And you'll find satisfying new ways to be engaged, passionate, and present.

Use this book to foster relationship enhancing conversations and collaborative actions among people. It is a valuable resource for compassionate conversations about gender.

This accessible guide offers a practical introduction to the Appreciative Inquiry method for enhancing customer satisfaction, cost competitiveness, revenues, profits, employee engagement, and organizations' abilities to meet the needs of society.

This handbook on the power of positive questions has implications for every aspect of business--measurement systems, customer focus groups, quality management, team building, performance appraisal, surveys--indeed everywhere we ask questions or gather data.

This book is full of provocative and positive questions that will develop and enhance your team's performance, yielding faster and better results.

Diana Whitney and the team of healthcare professionals at the University of Virginia Health System have joined together to provide this book of questions and AI activities designed especially for hospitals, clinics, medical educators, and health care leaders.

This book's imaginative questions, exercises, and positive spirit creates a simple yet powerful method for helping families discover hidden reserves of strength and inspired opportunities for better living.

This book presents an innovative perspective on peacebuilding that breaks new ground while maintaining strong roots and relationships in tradition.

In clear and direct language, this book explores the Appreciative Inquiry approach to decision making, leadership, group functioning, personnel evaluation, and the relationship of the organization to its context.

This book is intended as a source book for our students to assist them in our shared mission for the creation of better, more fulfilling and more productive work places, where the potential for Organizational Development values are most fully realized.

Positive organizational change begins by helping people within organizations to identify their own best experiences in the past, and then use them to imagine, design, and bring into being the organization they most want for the future.

Every organization has something that works right—things that give it life when it is vital, effective, and successful. Appreciative Inquiry begins by identifying this positive core and connecting organizational visions, plans, and structures to it in ways that heighten energy and inspire action for change.

Consisting of the first seven chapters of the Appreciative Inquiry Handbook, 2nd. Edition, this shortened version is aimed at academicians, students and workshop leaders.

This accessible guide offers a practical introduction to Appreciative Inquiry, which has been used to significantly enhance customer satisfaction, cost competitiveness, revenues, profits, and employee engagement, as well as organizations' abilities to meet the needs of society.