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Appreciative Inquiry Certificate Program of Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University (Origin of AI) is being offered for the first time in India & Surrounding Region at substantively subsidised Course Fee. Part 3 (Certificate Capstone) would be led by Dr Ronald Fry (AI Co-creator) ; and Parts 1 & 2 would be led by Dr Neena Verma (Designated AI Faculty of WSOM-CWRU for India & Surrounding Region)
Appreciative Inquiry is recognized worldwide as a revolutionary process for high engagement positive change. In this 3-day program, you will learn how it has been successfully used for organization culture change, strategic planning, merger integration, union management partnerships and community development. And you will learn how to do it, from start to powerful results. This hands-on workshop is based upon Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom’s best selling book, The Power of Appreciative Inquiry, a copy of which is included with your registration.
You will learn to design and facilitate key steps in the Appreciative Inquiry process: forming and facilitating a core team, articulating a change agenda, selecting affirmative topics, crafting and conducting appreciative interviews, making meaning of narrative data, envisioning and enacting positive futures, drafting provocative propositions and supporting innovation teams. And you will leave with a focused plan for using Appreciative Inquiry to create positive change in your organization or community.
This workshop fulfills a requirement in the Certification for Appreciative Inquiry Practitioners and Consultants (CAIPC).
What might be possible if community of organization members were fully engaged and using their strengths to collectively achieve shared visions?
WHAT IS APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY?
Appreciative Inquiry is a collaborative, strengths-based approach to both personal and organizational development that is proving to be highly effective in thousands of organizations and communities in hundred of countries around the world. It is a way of bringing about change that shares leadership and learning, fully engaging everyone in the organization.
WHAT IS APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY FACILITATOR TRAINING©?
Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training© (AIFT) engages participants to learn about the foundations of Appreciative Inquiry as well as the skills to facilitate inquiry sessions. At the end of this intensive Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training (AIFT), participants will understand how to guide organizations, groups, and communities to consciously and deliberately shift their collective way of being and seeing to an appreciative approach, that will help them focus on what’s right in their organization, group or community, rather than on what’s wrong.
This Appreciative Inquiry foundations course includes mini-lectures, and experiential learning (individual, pairs, trios, small group, and large group) as well as auditory and visual materials to enhance the learning experience. Each day has a morning and afternoon session; a morning and afternoon break; and one hour for lunch.
TRAINING IS DESIGNED FOR:
Leaders in businesses and corporations, community development, educational organizations governmental organizations, and nonprofit organizations–in short, anyone who wants to learn how to facilitate Appreciative Inquiry.
REGISTRATION INCLUDES:
Pre-workshop reading, four full days of instruction, lunch, instructional materials (binder and book), supervised practicum for AI Facilitator certification, and support/mentoring for one year.
Please note: Your trainers are available as mentor to you during your practicum – at no extra cost. They will also be part of the panel that reviews your practicum once it has been submitted. It is standard practice for the panel to engage you in a conversation about your work once you have submitted your practicum. Typically, they will respond with questions, to deepen their and your mutual understanding of and learning about AI. The practicum review is therefore a dialogical and interactive process.
Important: Participants that earn their certification through The Center for Appreciative Inquiry (CAI) are eligible to be included in the Center for Appreciative Inquiry’s Directory for FREE for the duration for their certification. Directory profiles are easy to create and update and will make you locatable by our worldwide audience.
Positive Change Coaching is a co-creative process for human transformation. Through collaborative inquiry, dialogue and reflection, it enables people to integrate the best of their past with their strengths, values, and visions; to bring forth positively powerful performance and results.
During these Sessions you will apply Appreciative Inquiry principles and other strength-based methodologies to coaching, gaining awareness of your “co-creative” presence, and enhance your capacities to:
•Listen for the questions that need to be asked
•Frame questions to discover and catalyze potential
•Facilitate clients establishing clear positive intentions
•Develop your co-creative process for guiding transformation
•Tell stories to suggest new approaches to old problems
•Trust your intuition to guide you and the coaching process
Developing Positive Leadership is important to engage people in today’s ever changing organizations. Developing a positive orientation to leadership increases your ability to bring out the best in people and organizations while enhancing the organization’s capacity for innovation and productivity. This workshop provides a transformational approach to identify your individual strengths and develop your own personal approach to positive leadership.
Who Should Attend:
Leaders who wish to amplify the inspirational side of their leadership.
Leaders who recognize that new skills are necessary in contemporary times where the environment is dramatically changing, where the rules that have guided how we operate no longer apply, and where the best leaders will be transparent with their intentions, having a seamless link between their espoused values, actions, and behaviors.
Human Resources and Organizational Development professionals looking for leadership developmental approaches that increase employee engagement and organizational performance.
Developing Positive Leadership is important to engage people in today’s ever changing organizations. Developing a positive orientation to leadership increases your ability to bring out the best in people and organizations while enhancing the organization’s capacity for innovation and productivity. This workshop provides a transformational approach to identify your individual strengths and develop your own personal approach to positive leadership.
Who Should Attend:
-Leaders who wish to amplify the inspirational side of their leadership.
-Leaders who recognize that new skills are necessary in contemporary times where the environment is dramatically changing, where the rules that have guided how we operate no longer apply, and where the best leaders will be transparent with their intentions, having a seamless link between their espoused values, actions, and behaviors.
-Human Resources and Organizational Development professionals looking for leadership developmental approaches that increase employee engagement and organizational performance.
