Who Uses Appreciative Inquiry?

Melissa Robaina
Melissa Robaina
Author: Melissa Robaina
Posted: April 15, 2011
Beyond being an organizational development process, Appreciative Inquiry becomes a generative way to energize the creative best in people and their organizations. Appreciative Inquiry provides leaders with a methodology to focus on the positive instead of the negative.

Rather than focusing mainly on problems,
Appreciative Inquiry elicits SOLUTIONS

 Clients that use Appreciative Inquiry include:

  • Corporations
  • Colleges and Universities
  • K-12 schools
  • Government Agencies
  • Non-profit Organizations
  • Community Development

APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY CAN BE USED FOR…
  • Accreditation
  • Attitude and morale change
  • Brand and image building
  • Collaborative alliances, joint ventures, and partnerships
  • Communications
  • Conflict resolution and mediation
  • Customer service
  • Dialogue
  • Diversity initiatives
  • Employee development
  • Evaluation to valuation of performance systems
  • Focus groups
  • Generative benchmarking
  • Human resource practices, staffing orientation
  • Innovations toward the ideal organization
  • Knowledge management
  • Labor-management
  • Leadership and management development
  • Meetings
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Mission and goals development
  • Organization and structure design
  • Organizational culture change and transformation
  • Performance management
  • Process and method design
  • Quality improvement and assurance
  • Relationship building
  • Safety
  • Self-studies
  • Strategic planning
  • Student success
  • Surveys
  • Team development
  • Vision and values clarification
  • Workplace environment
  • Work process redesign
 …FOR VIRTUALLY ANY HUMAN SYSTEMS CHANGE!

 

Who Uses Appreciative Inquiry?

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