Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Approach to Change
Driving transformation through co-creation.
“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”
— Steve Jobs
Organizations Are Not a Problem to be Solved
Change management has a negative reputation — it’s often seen as synonymous with a reorganization, downsizing, restructuring, merger, and more.
However, the biggest problem with change management is the focus on what’s broken — it approaches organizations as something to be fixed.
What’s not working?
The traditional problem-solving approach to change management — finding what is wrong and developing solutions to fix the problems — seeds a negative mindset. It makes people focus on what’s broken. Time is spent rehashing issues and what caused them.
After a while, the deficit-based view sucks everyone’s energy — there are blame and division rather than motivation and engagement. Teammates think they are doing everything wrong.
