[Ailist] Additional thoughts on AI phases

[Joy Salmon]

Rob:  I appreciate pragmatism.  While I had responded to Bill and Mukul off-line, I'll share more widely.  
   
  When I was a public agency insider that used an appreciative approach to engage employees, it sometimes seemed necessary to have one foot in both paradigms (to use Jane Watkins' phrase)--ie a pragmatic approach.  I believe research shows that when you introduce new ideas, if they are so disparate from the current, they're more likely to be immediately rejected.  In clinical work, often the client's language is used to affirm, connect, describe the desired outcome.  I believe that could apply here as well.  
   
  Joy Salmon
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Rob Voyle <rob at voyle.com> wrote:
  Hi Cheri and Others

Perhaps it is my pragmatism but I have always found that I resonate with the 
word Deliver rather than Destiny, especially when working in industrial settings, 
it needs a whole lot less interpreting. People understand Deliver. We have a 
strategic plan now we need some strategic action, with good feedback and feed 
forward.

I also like Deliver in Church settings because it is so easy for theological types to 
go off into their Destiny thinking without grounding it in the practicalities of the 
day to day things they have to do and to pay attention to the outcomes of their 
actions.
Rob 

Robert J. Voyle, Psy.D.
Director, Clergy Leadership Institute
For Coaching and Training in Appreciative Inquiry
http://www.clergyleadership.com/
503-647-2378 or 503-647-2382

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