Appreciative Team Building: Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best of Your Team

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December 16, 2004

by Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, Jay Cherney, and Ron Fry 

Appreciative Team Building: Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best of Your Team
provides your team with everything it needs to discover the keys to past successes
and future possibilities. Learn how to enhance your team’s performance by igniting
engaging conversations.
Providing 48 positive questions, sample interview guides, and a step-by-step
process for self-managed inquiry, Appreciative Team Buildingbreaks new ground
in the development of high performance teams. Choose positive questions on any
one of eight topics that are pivotal to high performance and team development:
• Clear and shared goals
• Clear and shared roles and responsibilities
• Supportive and empowering relationships
• Clear and shared procedures
• Nurturing and challenging leadership
• Evolving energy and spirit
• Productivity and performance
• Complete, purposeful and uplifting communication

“This book is full of provocative and positive questions that will develop and enhance your team’s performance, yielding faster and better results.”
–Julie Meiresonne
Director, Customer Relations, Hunter Douglas Window Fashions Division, Broomfield, CO

“Take time to savor every page of this book. Let yourself be drawn in by the questions. They will transform how you and others work on a day-to-day basis. This book is a meaningful contribution to the field. Grab it.”

–Jane Galloway Seiling
Senior Editor, Taos Institute Publishing and Author, The Membership Organization