Appreciative Inquiry For Strategic Planning

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Appreciative InquiryFor

Strategic Planning

Inspiring PossibilitiesCost Effectively Throughout the entire organisation

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80% of Strategic Planning

Fail @ Execution

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– Peter Drucker, quoted by David Cooperrider

“The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths in ways that make a system’s weaknesses irrelevant.”

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Citius Altius FortiusWhat if change can do more than PERFORM?

Positive change can TRANSFORM!

WHAT YOU APPRECIATE, APPRECIATES

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APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

• A philosophy and way of looking at the world

• A framework and practical approach for creating positive change

• The study and exploration of what gives life to human systems when they are at their best

• Based on the theory that inquiry into strengths, successes, values, and dreams is itself transformational


Identify problem or issue

Conduct root cause analysis of failures

Brainstorm & analyze possibilitiesDiscuss changes in order to correct a problem

Formulate Action plans & Re-evaluate if the problem is resolved


Problem Solving Appreciative InquiryAppreciate & value the best of what is. Discovering the organisation’s root causes of success

Envisioning bold new possibilities for the future

Dialogue & design what could be Designing the organization for excellence based upon

best practices

Co-constructing the future towards the desired destiny

assumptionAn organization is a problem to be solved

An organization is a solution/ mystery to be embraced.


Slow pace of change

Requires a lot of positive emotion to create change

Assumes an organization is made up of a series of problems

Cultivates a deficit based culture


Problem Solving Appreciative Inquiry

Quickly creates a new dynamic

People unite around a shared vision of the future

Assumes an organization is a source of limitless imagination and capacity

Creates an appreciative culture

Planed by few top leaders Engages many from all ranks, inclusive of internal and external stakeholders


Focus on strengths … Instead of deficits

All-inclusive … Instead of a privileged few

Solutions from within … Instead of an outside “expert”

Creating the future … Instead just “fixing” the past

HOW APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY WORKS


Discovery

Dream

Design

Destiny

Define

Discovery“What gives life?”

The best of what is.Appreciating

Dream“What might be?”Envisioning

Results/Impact

Design“What should be –

the ideal?”Co-constructing

Destiny“How to empower,

learn, and improvise?”Sustaining

Definition“What to study?”“Who to involve?”

Affirmative Topic & Stakeholders

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