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Positive Change and Appreciative Inquiry
We are internationally recognized for our cutting-edge Fortune 100 work using Appreciative Inquiry. Appreciative Inquiry is a positive approach for a cooperative search for the best in people and their organizations. AI involves the systematic discovery of what gives your system “life” when it is most effective and capable in economic, ecological and human terms, then helps you leverage this “positive core” of your business success for even greater accomplishments in the future. The central foundation of our Organizational Transformation strategies, appreciative inquiry is a foundation of all of our work. We routinely train employees in the many uses of appreciative inquiry to ensure internal organizational proficiency in AI to create new business success.
Positive Change refers to a wide range of interventions that are based on the recognition that people and organizations set far higher targets and achieve greater results when they are grounded in their most successful performance to date. When we set our normative floor at or near our very best historical performance, recognizing that what we have accomplished in the past can be repeated and built upon, we can envision and reach for unprecedented positive results. It is this philosophy of putting primary emphasis and attention on replicating and exceeding our best outcomes that underpins the Positive Change approach.
When we work with a client, we assist them in creating a clear picture of what is possible when their high point achievements are analyzed for "root causes of success" - those behaviors and factors that were the essential contributors to success that can be consciously repeated on a regular basis. Once these top benchmarks are seen as the new normal, it is easy to envision extraordinary new possibilities from consistently leveraging these most powerful strengths. This vision, grounded in real experience of success, engages people's passion for what they most want and dream of. Using a structured design process, we help our clients build the path and the practices that will lead them consistently and confidently to their new goals.
Positive change methods are the foundation of all kinds of best-in-class achievements, from gold medal Olympic performances to organizational transformations. Our clients have drawn on positive change interventions to revitalize corporate culture, revolutionize organizational processes, generate unprecedented innovation, and reach new pinnacles of career success. Results have been measured in billions of dollars of new revenue, world-class service delivery, entirely new vision and mission, and C-suite promotions.
Positive change does not avoid or deny problems that need to be addressed. It simply puts those problems in a new perspective, as matters to be cleaned up in the process of moving toward new vistas of possibility. Rather than dedicating unwarranted levels of attention to what has gone wrong, we can use the 80/20 rule to put most of our energy into repeating and building on our best performance. By focusing on consistently doing whatever it was that made our past successes possible, we create a new minimum expectation of high accomplishment upon which new triumphs are built.
Passion, Pride, Performance, Potential. We help you bring out the very best in your organization, applying the principles of Positive Change.