Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully Investigating the underlying principles of Appreciative Inquiry and applying them to personal leadership Please use the dd month yyyy format for the date for example 11 January 2008. The main title can be one or two lines long. Dr Stefan Cantore 22nd March 2016

Defining Appreciative Inquiry Recognising the best in people Perceiving the things which give life Affirm past and present strengths, successes, assets and potential To increase in value

Defining Appreciative Inquiry Acts of exploration and discovery A quest for new possibilities A willingness to learn To search, explore delve into or investigate strengths Hopefully this definition will have given you a sense of AI and its focus on discovering and understanding strengths. Rather than talk further we are going to encourage to discover strengths from your own experiences using a format that has become known as the discovery interview and which forms the basis for much that follows in an AI process. In pairs ( whoever you feel comfortable with) please consider the following and take turns to tell your story and ask questions of one another. You have approx …mins to complete this.

Appreciative Inquiry process Collaborative between people in its design Questions that really matter to people Participative across the organisation Conversational in its style Focused on both the tangible and intangible elements of the organisation

Appreciative Inquiry: 5-D cycle Discovery … at our best? Destiny … what will be? Affirmative Topic …..needs to be changed! Dream … what might be? Design … what should be?

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