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What is Appreciative Inquiry?
"Appreciative Inquiry (“AI”) – to appreciate means to value – to understand those things worth valuing. To inquire means to study, to ask questions, to search. AI is therefore a collaborative search to identify and understand your organisation’s strengths, greatest opportunities and people’s aspirations and hopes for the future."
Appreciative Inquiry is a positively framed, strength-based approach to organisational development. Focusing on the ‘positive core’ of an organisation helps to design or redesign the systems for the advancement of effective and sustainable change. It prevents the natural tendency to waste time seeking to overcome or minimise weaknesses. AI is not a ‘top down’ or ‘bottom-up’ change process, but rather a ‘whole system’ approach.
THE 5 DIMENSIONS OF APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY
Define
What is the topic of inquiry? What is the project’s purpose? The content? What needs to be achieved?
Discover
Start by identifying and appreciating the best of ‘what is’. What organisational and individual strengths already exist in areas of leadership, relationships, technologies, processes, structures and values, to drive wellbeing priorities?
Design
Bringing together the stories from discovery and the imagination and creativity from dreaming. Combining the ‘best of what is’ with ‘what might be’, to create the ideal, ‘what should be’.
Deliver
Creating ‘what will be’. How will the project design elements be delivered? Imbedded? Measured for impact? Evaluated and revised?
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