[Ailist] Re: AI case studies in engineering companies

[Rob Voyle]

Mike Wrote:

Last but not least - don't have too many mental models about engineers.
That way you allow them to be human beings too ;-) Respect their preferred
learning style and support their learning/change.

Hi Mike

I appreciate this comment personally as both a mechanical engineer and a 
priest.
It is way too easy to get trapped into our social constructions of one group or 
another and radically miss the wonder of their humanity and the way they live 
meaningful lives.

In my experience engineers are highly imaginative, because they are always 
imaging how to fix things and make them better.  The task is to tap into their 
way of imagining.  Walt Disney used the term imagineering to describe his work 
and I use it a lot to describe how I like to work with individuals and goups as 
they imagineer their preferred future.

Rob
  
Robert J. Voyle, Psy.D.
Director, Clergy Leadership Institute
For Coaching and Training in Appreciative Inquiry
Author: Core Elements of the Appreciative Way 
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