[Ailist] Appreciative Inquiry Course - Teachers College, Columbia U - November 9 & 10

[Loretta Donovan]

 <http://www.tc.columbia.edu/ceoi/summer06/ai/> 


Innovations in Business through a Positive Lens:
Concepts & Practices in 
Appreciative Inquiry

Taught by Renowned Instructors: 

Loretta Donovan 

and Bernard Mohr


 


November 9 & 10, 2006


8:30 am to 4:30 pm


Available for 1.5 CEUs/ non-credit or for  1 credit at  $995</> 

Register by Phone at1.800.209.1245 or Online for Course Code: 

 <http://continuingeducation.tc.columbia.edu/default.aspx?pageid=134&PK=771>
CEOI&ORL 2010.001


What if . . . 

 . . . The quality and speed of organizational transformation is determined
by the very questions that we ask? Instead of grinding resistance to change?

 

 . . . Companies use inspired action and innovation that combined best
practices employees already knew along with their hopes and ideas for the
future?


Applying David Cooperrider's framework of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), an
exciting and proven approach to transforming business from his intensive
two-day seminar will explore generative approaches to increasing business
capacity, fostering creativity and strategically positioning the work of the
corporation. 

AI builds a constructive union between stakeholders and the organization
based on inquiry into past and present capacities: achievements, assets,
strengths, elevated thoughts, opportunities, high point moments, core
values, traditions, strategic competencies, insights into the deeper
corporate spirit, and visions of valued and possible futures. This
"discovery" is then translated into descriptions of a desired future for the
organization and its stakeholders - which in turn serves as the basis for
the development of the innovations which will most rapidly move the
organization in the direction it seeks to attain. 

This introductory course will focus on the five phases of the appreciative
process: definition of the strategic need, discovery of the organization's
positive core, dreaming of the environment in which excellence will be
fostered in the future, design of the structures, processes and procedures
that embody the principles and strategic outcomes, and delivery of the
initiatives that will move the business forward to its new vision. It will
highlight examples from the manufacturing, services, consumer goods and
healthcare industries. Attention will be given to factors essential for
effective use of AI and preparing for implementation.

 

 



 





 

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