The Appreciative Inquiry Summit: A Practitioner's Guide for Leading Large-Group Change

by Ludema, James D.

• ISBN13: 9781576752487
• ISBN10: 1576752488
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

The Appreciative Inquiry Summit is about a revolutionary new method of accelerating positive organization change by involving a broad range of internal and external stakeholders in the change process. The Appreciative Inquiry Summit is typically a single event or series of events that bring people together to: discover the organization's core competencies and strengths; envision opportunities for positive change; design the desired changes into the organization's systems, structures, strategies, and culture; and implement and sustain the change for extraordinary results. AI Summits have been used effectively with hundreds of organizations-corporations, non-profits, government, and communities-in a variety of applications.

Author Biography

Bernard J. Mohr is Managing Partner of The Synapse Group, Inc., a senior faculty member of the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD	vii
PREFACE	xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xvii
PART I: UNDERSTANDING THE AI SUMMIT	2	(50)
CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS THE APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY SUMMIT METHODOLOGY?	5	(22)
CHAPTER 2 THE APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY SUMMIT PROCESS: START TO FINISH	27	(10)
CHAPTER 3 TEN ESSENTIAL CONDITIONS FOR AI SUMMIT SUCCESS	37	(15)
PART II: BEFORE THE SUMMIT	52	(68)
CHAPTER 4 SPONSORING AN APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY SUMMIT	55	(16)
CHAPTER 5 PLANNING THE AI SUMMIT	71	(22)
CHAPTER 6 CREATING THE AI SUMMIT DESIGN	93	(27)
PART III: DURING THE SUMMIT	120	(100)
CHAPTER 7 DISCOVERY	125	(20)
CHAPTER 8 DREAM	145	(24)
CHAPTER 9 DESIGN	169	(18)
CHAPTER 10 DESTINY	187	(18)
CHAPTER 11 FACILITATING AN AI SUMMIT	205	(15)
PART IV: AFTER THE SUMMIT	220	(32)
CHAPTER 12 SUMMIT FOLLOW-UP	223	(29)
CHAPTER 13 THE PROMISE OF THE APPRECIATIVE ORGANIZATION
PART V: APPENDIX: SAMPLE PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK	252	(29)
NOTES	281	(10)
OTHER BOOKS ON APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY	291	(2)
INDEX	293	(14)
ABOUT THE AUTHORS	307