Charity Village®NewsWeek: Cover Story: "Understanding appreciative inquiry: Is the glass half empty or half full?
Louise Chatterton LuchukBy Louise Chatterton Luchuk
May 26, 2008
If you feel like you are bombarded with challenges, barriers, problems, and other energy-draining negatives, you're probably in just the right head space to learn more about appreciative inquiry.
David Cooperrider and his colleagues at Case Western Reserve University developed appreciative inquiry (AI) in the early 1980s as a result of interviewing managers and participants in a program evaluation/review. They were struck by the stories and energy generated when people talked about the successes of the program. Michelle Chambers, CHRP, CTDP, is an organization learning and development consultant who works with the AI approach, particularly in the nonprofit context. Chambers says, “Instead of focusing on problems and changing people, AI invites people to engage in a collaborative discovery of what makes their organization effective.”"
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