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Let your strengths inspire and guide your actions!

What is the basis for Appreciative Inquiry?

This group-work approach relies on eight principles, which can be summarized as follows: behaviour and decisions are based on what we think or imagine will happen in the future, and we can collectively construct a better future in which we will all be engaged.

By focalizing efforts and questions on success rather than roadblocks, Appreciative Inquiry allows a group, or an organization, to soar from a springboard instead of preparing to get through a maze.

How does it work?

Through the Appreciative Inquiry process, the group uncovers and explains the factors and mechanisms lying in the very best past accomplishments, in order to reproduce it and meet any challenge or difficult situation with strength and confidence.

The group gathers around a common goal and:

• discovers its most valuable strengths, the “core positive” or root causes of success;
• envisions a future in which these strengths are fully alive;
• identifies strategic elements and interrelations that will make this vision become reality; and
• develops an implementation plan using creativity and collaboration.

What results can be expected?

At the very least, participants usually express a high level of satisfaction about highlighting the greatest strengths of the organization or group, often overshadowed by the day-to-day problems.

Over and above that, developing a plan strongly anchored in these strengths and in the common vision that emerged from it provides a solid foundation from which to soar towards new summits.

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