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You, at Your Best
Strengths-Based Workplace Culture
ANGIE L STEWART
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Webinar Invitations + to take with you!
1. Be Brave, Not Perfect
2. Be Curious, Be Present
3. Be Prepared to Be Surprised
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Reflection 1: What does it look like to Be Brave, Not Perfect?
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Reflection 2: What does it look like to be more curious?
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Webinar Roadmap
Explore Appreciative Inquiry Principles
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(Re) Connect | Reflect on who you are at your best
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(Re)Discover how to thrive, experience inspiration and renewed energy,
and sharpen your vision
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How familiar are you with Appreciative Inquiry? 1
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How much of your current workplace
has a strength-based focus? 2
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When is the last time you reflected on
how awesome you are?3
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An Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry
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A human being is not a resource but a source
A resource is like a lump of coal; once you use it, it’s gone, depleted, and worn out.
A source is like the sun—virtually inexhaustible and continuously generating energy, light, and warmth.
There is no more powerful source of creative energy in the world than a turned-on, empowered, human being. -Sisodia, Sheth, and Wolf. Firms of Endearment, 2015
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What is Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
A proven method for identifying the positive core
and connecting to it
The Center For Appreciative Inquiry
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What is Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
APPRECIATIVE: Appreciation has to do with recognition, valuing, and gratitude—it is both
the act of recognition and the act of enhancing value.
● Recognize the Best in People
● Perceive those things which give life, health, vitality, and excellence
● Afirm past and present strengths, successes, assets, and potentials
The Power of Appreciative Inquiry
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What is Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
INQUIRY: Exploration and Discovery in the Spirit of Learning
● Quest for new possibilities
● Willingness to be in a state of unknowing
● Wonder
● Willingness to learn
The Power of Appreciative Inquiry
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What is Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
Appreciative Inquiry creates a context for people to be included and heard
throughout difficult and challenging times, turns command-and-control
cultures into communities of discovery and cooperation, and renews leaders
and organizations.
The Power of Appreciative Inquiry
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Reflection 3: What possibilities open up when people are included and heard throughout difficult and challenging times?
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3 Emergent Principles of AI
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Wholeness Principle: Wholeness Brings Out the Best
The whole story is never a
singular story but is often a
synthesis , a compilation of
multiple stories, shared and
woven together by the many
people involved.
The Power of Appreciative Inquiry
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Reflection 4: What possibilities open up for you when there is safety to focus on issues of higher purpose and the greater good?
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Enactment Principle: Acting “as if” is Self-Fulfilling
As you start to behave as if
what you wish to see in the
future is already true, you
provide a living example or
reference experience for
making change.
The Power of Appreciative Inquiry
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Reflection 5: What is one thing you want to start doing that is in alignment with your desired experience in the workplace?
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Free Choice Principle: Free Choice Liberates Power
Every moment of our lives we
are choosing what we want and
don’t want, what we will and
won’t do, what like and don’t
like.
The Power of Appreciative Inquiry
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Reflection 6: What is one thing you are intentionally choosing based on your strengths, values, hopes, and dreams?
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What is Appreciative Inquiry?
Appreciative Inquiry is about conversations that matter
and expand the realm of positive possibilities
The Center For Appreciative Inquiry
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Appreciative Inquiry—A strengths-based Workplace
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A Strengths-Based Workplace
Appreciative inquiry aims to uncover and bring forth existing
strengths, hopes, and dreams—to identify and amplify the positive
core.
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Are We Just Denying Problems?
If you want to transform a situation, relationship, organization,
focusing on strengths is much more effective than focusing on
problems.
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Why Does Appreciative Inquiry Work?
It liberates power and unleashes both individual and organizational
power, brings out the best in people, encourages them to see and
support the best in others, and generates unprecedented cooperation
and innovation.
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Why Does Appreciative Inquiry Work?
● It builds relationships, enabling people to be known in relationship rather than in roles
● It creates opportunity for people to be heard
● It generates opportunities for people to dream, and to share their dreams
● It creates an environment in which people are able to choose how they contribute
● It gives people both discretion and support to act
● It encourages and enables people to be positive
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A Strengths-Based Workplace
“Every member of the organization must feel valued, respected,
accepted and encouraged to fully participate in the organization. They
need to feel recognized for their unique backgrounds, experiences,
personalities and the things they do exceptionally well -- their
strengths.”
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/247106/no-strategy-true-inclusion-workplace.aspx
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Features of a Strengths-Based Workplace
● Everyone treats everyone with respect
● People are valued for their strengths
● Leader’s do what’s right
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/247106/no-strategy-true-inclusion-workplace.aspx
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You, at your best
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Insights into You, at Your Best
Tell me about a peak
experience in your
professional life, a time
when you felt most alive,
most engaged, and really
proud of yourself and your
work.
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Reflection 7: Tell me about a peak experience in your professional life, a time when you felt most alive, most engaged, and really proud of yourself and your work.
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Insights into You, at Your Best
Without being humble,
what do you value most
about yourself and the way
you do your work?
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Reflection 8: Without being humble, what do you value most about yourself and the way you do your work?
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Insights into You, at Your Best
If you had a magic wand
and could have any three
wishes granted to heighten
the health and vitality of
your workplace, what
would they be?
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Reflection 9: If you had a magic wand and could have any three wishes granted to heighten the health and vitality of your workplace, what would they be?
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Research & Inspiration SourcesThe Power of Appreciative Inquiry
The Center for Appreciative Inquiry
Positive Organizational Scholarship (Ross)
Positive relationships at work: An invitation and introduction
What is Appreciative Inquiry? A Brief History & Real Life Examples
Playful inquiry -- try this anywhere: Robyn Stratton-Berkessel at TEDxNavesink
Positive Links Speaker Series-Positive organization development: A new change equation that’s changing everything (David Cooperrider)
