Appreciative Inquiry Course - Teachers College, Columbia U, Nov. 9/10

[Loretta Donovan]

Innovations in Business through a Positive Lens:
Concepts and 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 1 credit

Register by Phone at 1.800.209.1245 or Online for Course Code CEOI&ORL
2010.001 at http://continuingeducation.tc.columbia.edu/default.aspx?
pageid=134&PK=771


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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