Strength-Based Organizations: The Challenge for Appreciative Inquiry 2.0?

Strength-Based Organizations: The Challenge for Appreciative Inquiry 2.0?

ABSTRACT

CONTENTS

1 Introduction

5 About our Contributors

8 The 3-Circles of the Strengths Revolution

12 Appreciative Inquiry: A Process for Designing Life-Affirming Organizations

17 Theoretical Characteristics and Behaviors of SBOs: Organizations as organic, integral, emergent entities that continually evolve from the inside

23 Performance Amplification: Building a Strength-Based Organization

27 CertainTeed’s Moundsville Plant Start-up… a Strength-Based Journey to Becoming a High-Commitment/High- Engagement Manufacturing Organization

33 Organic Evolution: Becoming a Strength-Based Organization

37 Peering Through the Kaleidoscope: Emergent Design, Emerging Strengths at the Nova Scotia Community College

41 In Conversation with Jenifer Fox and Ada Jo Mann

43 From ‘Child Abuse Prevention’ to ‘Helping Families Put Together What’s Best for their Children’

48 Tracing the Journey of an Extraordinary Strength-Based Organization: Neighborhood Centers, Inc.

52 How Do You Become a Strength- Based Organization?

55 News Agency Muddles its Way to Strength-Based Journalism: Appreciative Approach Vital to Organization’s Survival

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Author: Bernard Mohr

Bernard Mohr is co-founder of the Co-Creating Mutual Value Collaborative, a nonprofit dedicated to developing and sharing research-based tools and practices that support the HOW of Regenerative Business Growth. A pioneer in the development of Appreciative Inquiry, he brings to this task 45 years of organizational innovation consulting around the world. Contact: bernard@cocreatingmutualvalue.org / https://cocreatingmutualvalue.org

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Author: Catherine McKenna

Catherine is a founding partner of Innovation Partners International, is located in Ottawa, Canada. She works with organization leaders to facilitate positive change by discovering and building on strengths, and by inviting and supporting broad participation in innovation. In addition to her consulting practice, Catherine delivers foundations and advanced training in Appreciative Inquiry. E: cmckenna@innovationpartners.com

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Author: Sallie Lee 

Sallie Lee, thinking partner and facilitator for a global client base, was certified in Appreciative Inquiry through the yearlong Global Excellence in Management (GEM) program in 1997 and never looked back. Sallie and GEM director Ada Jo Mann initiated the AI Jam in 2017, partnering with the Cooperrider Center, and has gone on to collect video interviews of colleagues’ AI history for the World Inquiry. E: sallielee@mac.com

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Author: Joanne Daykin

Joanne Daykin founding partner of Innovation Partners International, uses an Appreciative Inquiry approach to her work. She assists organizations in making better decisions, creating greater buy-in and sparking innovation. Her participative, whole systems approach is designed to enhance collaboration and make lasting positive change. She enjoys consulting on projects around strategic planning, leadership development, team and individual coaching, and organization transformation and renewal. She is based in Ottawa, Canada. E: jdaykin@InnovationPartners.com

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