Appreciative inquiry change at the speed of imagination /

"This book shows how the Appreciative Inquiry process helps OD and HR professionals tap into inspiring "high point" accounts of personal or collective capacity. This new edition puts the focus on how AI really works and adds guidelines on how to apply AI in a variety of organizational...

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Main Authors: Watkins, Jane Magruder
Group Author: Mohr, Bernard J; Kelly, Ralph, 1938
Published:
Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Practicing organization development series ; 35
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118256060
Summary: "This book shows how the Appreciative Inquiry process helps OD and HR professionals tap into inspiring "high point" accounts of personal or collective capacity. This new edition puts the focus on how AI really works and adds guidelines on how to apply AI in a variety of organizational situations and for a variety of initiatives such as coaching, leadership development, strategic planning, and teambuilding. It contains tools and other resources to help with immediate use in the workplace and new and updated case studies that show how it really works."--Provided by publisher.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xv, 318 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300) and index.
ISBN: 9781118015100 (electronic bk.)
111801510X (electronic bk.)
9781118015117 (electronic bk.)
1118015118 (electronic bk.)
9781118015124 (electronic bk.)
1118015126 (electronic bk.)
9781118256060 (electronic bk.)
1118256069 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: HD58
CLC: C936
Contents: The case for a new approach to change -- Appreciative inquiry : history, theory, and practice -- Appreciative inquiry as a perspective for organization change -- Choose the positive as the focus of inquiry (define) -- Inquire into stories of what gives life in the system (discover) -- Locate themes that appear in the stories (discover) -- Create shared images for a preferred future (dream) -- Innovate ways to create that preferred future (deliver) -- Valuation.