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The Appreciative Inquiry Summit: A Practitioner's Guide for Leading Large-Group Change ISBN: 1576752488 ISBN13: 9781576752487 The Appreciative Inquiry Summit: A Practitioner's Guide for Leading Large-Group Change By: James D. Ludema ; Bernard Mohr ; Diana Whitney ; Thomas J. Griffin Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Format: Paperback Our Price: 16.33 Discount: 14% RRP: 18.99

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. All summits have been used effectively with hundreds of organizations - corporations, non-profits, government, and communities - in a variety of applications. Executives, managers, and consultants are always looking for new high-leverage change methods that will support fast, sustainable improvements in organizational performance.


Contents:

Section I: Understanding the Appreciative Inquiry Summit
- Chapter 1: The Al Summit Process: Start to Finish
- Chapter 2: The Al Summit in Action: Twelve Case Examples
- Chapter 3: Why Al Summits Produce Results
- Chapter 4: Essential Conditions for Success
- Section II: Before the Summit
- Chapter 5: Sponsoring an Al Summit
- Chapter 6: Planning the Summit
- Chapter 7: Creating a Design for the Summit
- Section III: During the Summit
- Chapter 8: Facilitating the Summit
- Chapter 9: Discovery
- Chapter 10: Dream
- Chapter 11: Design
- Chapter 12: Destiny
- Section III: After the Summit
- Chapter 13: Summit Follow Up
- Chapter 14: Building the Appreciative Organization
- Chapter 15: Variations of a Four-Day Al Summit
- Section IV: Resources
- Appendix 1: Sample Pre-Summit Planning Agenda
- Appendix 2: Sample Summit Invitation Letter
- Appendix 3: Logistics: Summit Sites, Room Set-Up, and Materials
- Appendix 4: Sample Workbook


Brief Description:

Deals with a method of accelerating positive organization change. This book discusses the Appreciative inquiry summit, a single event or series of events that bring people together to discover the organization's competencies, envision opportunities for positive change, design the desired changes and implement and sustain the change.

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