Appreciative Inquiry & Leadership
Appreciative Inquiry
• AI is a collaborative search to identify and
understand the organization’s strengths, its
potentials, the greatest opportunities, and
people’s hopes for the future…
AI “4D”
Discovery
• Opportunity Context
• Positive Core
Destiny
• Structures
• Practices
• Indicators
Engagement:
Leadership Building
Engagement:
Leadership
Every Level
Leaders Building
Leadership Every Level
Design
• Principles
(“constitutional” beliefs)
Dream
• Purpose
• Vision
Beliefs
• Leadership is more important than management. There is a
difference.
• To get something you never had, you have to do something
you never did.
• Everyone must be engaged in the success of the company and
each other.
• People need help realizing their full potential.
• Teams always win. Individuals succeed short term.
• Managing and leading people is an art and a science.
• Goals are expectations.
Leadership
• Must have
• Trust of their employees
• A clear vision about company goals and policies.
• A sense of urgency about their importance.
• Ability to communicate the goals and objectives.
Leadership
• It is about personal integrity and instinctively knowing and
doing the right thing.
• It is about having enough modesty to constantly doubt, be
open, and listen.
• It is about performance over time, not charisma.
• It is about responsibility, not privilege.
Leadership Requirements
• Courage – ability to stand up for unpopular ideas, not avoid
confrontations, have confidence in his own capability.
• Dependability – follows through, keeps commitments, meets
deadlines, takes a accepts responsibility for actions.
• Flexibility – functions effectively in a changing environment,
provides stability, remains objective when confronted with
many responsibilities at once.
• Integrity – adheres to a code of business ethics and moral
values, behaves in a manner that is consistent with the
corporate climate and professional responsibility.
Leadership Requirements
• Judgement – uses logical and intellectual discernment to
reach sound evaluations of alternative actions, knows their
own authority and is careful not to exceed it. Uses past
experience and information to gain perspective on present
decision and makes objective evaluations.
• Respect for others – honors rather than belittles the opinions
or work of others, regardless of status or position in the
organization.