Summary
Talent Development Workshop: Appreciative Inquiry - A strengths based approach to change management
Appreciative inquiry is a strengths-based approach to managing organisational change.
Traditional approaches to organisational change are deficit based. They identify problems, come up with solutions to those problems and then implement the best solution. This traditional deficit-based approach is great for increasing efficiency in organisations; however, it has the unintended consequence of creating a sense of fatigue and a lack of engagement amongst staff.
Appreciative inquiry identifies an organisation's strengths and those things that have made it successful in the past and uses that as a platform to imagine, design, and deliver an even better future.
There are five phases to an appreciative inquiry:
- The process starts by defining the topic of inquiry, the questions we ask ourselves are fateful. We will move in the direction of that which we inquire about.
- The second phase is discovery, a search to identify what has made us successful in the past.
- The third phase, dream, is where we imagine what our future might look like and agree on future images and possibilities that we want to pursue.
- The fourth phase, design, is where we start to come up with actionable ideas about the steps that we might take to realise the ideal future that we have described.
- The final phase, deliver, is where, because we cocreated them, we are motivated to begin the implementation of our designs.
In this seminar, delivered by Ralph Rogers, Director Taiwan, British Council, we will look at these phases in more detail, as well as some of the theories and principles underlying appreciative inquiry.
*Note: Due to COVID 19, we will need all guests to fill in the Travel and Health Declaration online during registration. This is for all the participant's health safety and follows the Local Taiwan regulations. Thank you in advance for your understanding.
由於今年新冠狀疫情影響，BCCTaipei 將遵守政府要求落實實名制，每位參與人員與賓客都需要在我們網站上填寫報名表與健康聲明書，進而保障大家健康安全，謝謝大家的諒解!
