Practical Appreciative Inquiry

Interested in learning more about the exciting change methodology Appreciative Inquiry? This is the book for you.

Interested in learning how to use Appreciative Inquiry in different work situations? This could be the book for you.

Sarah wrote this book to share her hard won experience of how to bring an appreciative inquiry approach to many different situations.

It has two parts. The first explains the model, its history and its theoretical location and explores the evidence base and critiques.

The second is a series of chapters that demonstrate how Appreciative Inquiry can be applied to different areas of workplace challenge.

If you are keen to put Appreciative Inquiry at the heart of your practice and are interested in how it connects to current topics of organisational interest such as psychological safety, equality, diversity and inclusion and remote working, this could be the book for you.

Features and content of the book include

• Clear account of the development of Appreciative Inquiry explaining how it relates to other disciplines such as dialogic organisational development
• Presentation of the evidence base for, and the critiques of, Appreciative Inquiry
• Clear explanation of the 5D model, the principles of practice, and key theoretical concepts such as narrative and sense-making
• How Appreciative Inquiry helps with psychological safety and equality, diversity and inclusion
• Guidance on how to create a commission
• A series of chapters on the application of Appreciative Inquiry to
• Leadership
• Resilience
• Project management
• Innovation and creativity
• Silo busting
• Performance
• Teams
• Virtual and hybrid working
• Evaluation
• Planned change
• Health and wellbeing

with case studies to illustrate.

• Templates and illustrative material for practitioner use
• A deconstructed case study to explore the application of appreciative inquiry in each of the topic chapters

Who is it for?

The heart of this book is aimed at Appreciative Inquiry practitioners looking for guidance on how to extend their practice ability to many challenges of organisational life.

It is designed to be an easy read, with footnotes rather than in-text references. However, it is sufficiently well-referenced that it should also be useful to students and academics.