Practical NLP Podcast

How to facilitate the Dream stage when you're conducting an Appreciative Inquiry workshop with a team (Appreciative Team Development), with some tips on scaling up for larger groups - plus ideas for what to do if unexpected situations crop up

Practical Appreciative Inquiry podcast: How to frame the Dream stage of Appreciative Inquiry so that participants understand it

Appreciative Inquiry talks a lot about generative questions - but what are they? What do they do? And how to ask them successfully? Find out in this episode!

Exploring the transformative world of Appreciative Inquiry with Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres, authors of 'Conversations Worth Having'. Learn how to ask generative questions and frame conversations positively to foster collaboration and growth in your personal and professional life. Plus, the importance of curiosity, and how to avoid toxic positivity! Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm24

Interview with Wendy Burton, who's been using Appreciative Inquiry in the NHS in conjunction with Lean and Design Thinking to help improve processes and turn around struggling teams. Lots of useful tips and insights applicable beyond coaching in healthcare! Shownotes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm23 (includes transcript)

When you're creating a vision of the ideal future with a team, or even a whole organisation, wouldn't it be great if they could get free of the constraints of past problems and limits? That's what the Dream stage of Appreciative Inquiry's 5-D format is designed to do. Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm22

Many business processes, essential as they are, don’t in themselves make the heart beat faster. How can we use Appreciative Inquiry to stimulate generative thinking about topics that are hard to engage with emotionally? Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm21

How do you conduct appreciative interviews with people who are feeling negative, or who are going through a tough time? This episode has some tips for doing the interviews sensitively, and for handling ‘negativity’ or cynicism from the interviewee. Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm20

So your group have done their appreciative interviews with each other - now, how do they identify the themes emerging from them? This episode is a deep dive the into practicalities of facilitating an Appreciative Inquiry process, starting with a small-group appreciative team development session and including tips for scaling up to larger groups. Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm19

Appreciative interviews are a great way to find what's working so you can do more of it. Here are three ways you can use them Get the show notes at https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm18

There are various formats for appreciative interviews in the Appreciative Inquiry textbooks - this one works nicely for business. Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm17

Appreciative interviews are the heart of Appreciative Inquiry's Discovery stage. This episode covers what they are, why we do them, and what you need to know to be a successful appreciative interviewer. Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm16

What should you do BEFORE you plan any change? Discover what's already working! Find out how to conduct Appreciative Inquiry's Discovery stage, and discover: - What can so easily go wrong with conventional 'deficit-focused' change methods. - Why your vision of the future is stronger if you first look at what's worked in the past. - How to make it easier to believe the future vision can happen. - How you can strengthen working relationships and make your team more effective at the same time as finding out what's working. Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm15

The 'Problem to Possibility Exercise' - how to get a problem-focused team to move on to desired solutions and accept an appreciative approach. Show notes at https://coachingleaders.co.uk/positive-change-methods-podcast-14-problem-to-possibility

In this week's episode, a checklist for a well-defined affirmative topic, plus the easy way to flip problem statements to affirmative topics

What you need at the start of an Appreciative Inquiry project, and why you need to flip problem statements into affirmative topics

A quick overview of the most-used format for structuring an Appreciative Inquiry process, the 5-D Format. Plus, why it's so great!

The best way to get people to contribute and get involved because they want to, rather than because they’re told to

How Appreciative Inquiry’s ‘Enactment Principle’ is vital for successful change + why it's not the same as ‘Fake it till you make it’

Appreciative Inquiry's 'Wholeness Principle' - the easy way to engage people, get past 'groupthink', and make decisions more robust

What the 'Simultaneity Principle' of Appreciative Inquiry means in practice. Plus why the old way of thinking about organisational change very often doesn’t work, why effective questions aren’t just about the answers you get, and why  change starts happening as soon as you start asking questions

Appreciative Inquiry's 'Positive Principle' - the 'Paradox of Change', why most large-scale change initiatives fail, how positive emotions improve decision-making and productivity, and practical steps you can take to put the Positive Principle into action and improve your work (and life) right now

The Poetic Principle of Appreciative Inquiry - explained in simple terms, with real-world examples and useful suggested questions

The Anticipatory Principle in Appreciative Inquiry – how our positive images of the future can guide our actions in the present day

In this episode, we start looking at the basic principles of Appreciative Inquiry, starting with the Constructionist Principle. This won’t be just a theoretical discussion – we’ll be looking at practical implications for your life and work too, including: Why we think we’re experiencing objective reality, but actually we’re not; What cryptocurrency and financial crashes tell us about the social construction of reality; And how the Constructionist Principle means that change can happen much faster than we expect.

In this episode we find out about discoveries in neuroscience that support positive change methods, about the brain's built-in negative bias, and why we need to address it

In this first episode of the Positive Change Methods podcast, we’ll answer the following questions: What is Appreciative Inquiry? Where did it come from ? Why look for the best, rather than just sticking with conventional problem solving? Plus, what Appreciative Inquiry definitely is not!

A New Podcast About Appreciative Inquiry, Solution Focused Practice, Positive Psychology and More! How do you help your workforce stay creative and engaged? How can you be a positive leader - without falling into the toxic positivity trap? What do you do with problems that keep coming back every time you try to solve them? Announcing a new podcast that helps you make your life and work better by focusing on what’s working, and doing more of that. The Positive Change Methods podcast will explain and explore leading-edge approaches to change – Appreciative Inquiry, solution focused practice, positive psychology, and more. I’m Andy Smith, Appreciative Inquiry facilitator and trainer. I’ve been facilitating and teaching Appreciative Inquiry and related approaches for over 15 years, and I want to make them available to every leader, every coach, and every manager. We’ll give you easy to understand explanations of how Appreciative Inquiry works, and how to use it. We’ll also have interviews with thought leaders, and practitioners using these approaches to get results in the real world – in business, health services, education, and community development. And each episode will give you something practical that you can take away and start using immediately to make your life or work better. Available now on your favourite podcast app – the Positive Change Methods podcast with me, Andy Smith. Subscribe now to make sure you never miss an episode. Would you like get started using Appreciative Inquiry confidently with teams and small groups? Join the Practical Appreciative Inquiry facilitator training that will start soon. "Andy's facilitation skills in the Appreciative Inquiry course are truly exceptional" - Cedric LaFleur, LaFleur Leadership Institute, USA Get the full details, dates, and how to book here