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

[Tree Fitzpatrick]

Loretta, it is not the custom of the oslist for people to only show up when
they want to promote a workshop.  If you and Bernard participate in this
list as regulars, then I would be happy to learn of your workshop but I
resist seeing notices lilke this when it feels like you are just using the
list to market yoursel without meaningfully participating in the community.

On 9/27/06, Loretta Donovan <loretta.donovan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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-- 
Love rays,
Tree Fitzpatrick

. . . the great and incalculable grace of love, which says, with Augustine,
"I want you to be," without being able to give any particular reason for
such supreme and unsurpassable affirmation.  -- Hannah Arendt

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