Michael Allen's 2009 e-Learning Annual

8.4. ENTER APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

AI is sometimes referred to as a positively focused problem-solving approach, but it is actually an alternative. AI assumes that the members of each organization already have within them the vision and power to raise organizational performance from "good" to "great." In other words, smart people drawn together around a common purpose already have all the answers. An AI practitioner asks a series of carefully crafted envisioning questions to help participants articulate and embrace what the group already knows works, so they can purposefully do more of it. Building on this confident foundation, realistic stretch goals are revealed.

A variation of Table 1 (Cooperrider, Whitney, & Stavros, 2003, p. 15) is often used ...