Appreciative Inquiry Workshop: Accelerating Positive Change
Program Description
What is Appreciative Inquiry (AI), and why should I use it in my organization and with my clients? AI is a strength-based approach used to accelerate positive change. During this workshop, you’ll learn more about how one organization turned around a failed training initiative into an award-winning program that produced exponential business results by using AI as its model. Then we’ll dive in and teach you the AI process by experiencing it for yourself. We’ll use a hands-on and highly interactive approach where you’ll experience the positive emotions and optimism evoked by the AI process. This won’t be death by PowerPoint; in fact, we won’t be using any slides! You’ll receive a workbook filled with activities that will also serve as an ongoing reference for using AI in your organization.
What are some applications of AI? The workshop facilitator has used it in the following ways:
- Training program needs analysis and design
- Career coaching
- Employee engagement
- Strategic planning
- Teambuilding
- Sales strategy
- Leadership development
Don’t miss out on your opportunity to network IN PERSON with talent development professionals, learn a new methodology and take home ideas you can apply immediately.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the session, the participants will be able to:
- Define Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
- Describe the 4-D cycle
- Explain the importance of strengths-based questioning
- Demonstrate a brainstorming methodology
- Identify applications for using AI
When: April 29, 2022 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Where: Nauti Vine Winery
3950 S Main St Akron, OH 44319
Deadline to register is April 27th
Cost for this workshop:
- CVATD Board members: $38
- CVATD Power members: $49
- CVATD members: $59
- Members of other Ohio ATD chapters: $59
- Guests: $79
Facilitator Bio:
Amy Salapski is the Managing Partner of Cambium Development Group. With over 25 years of experience specializing in Organizational and Talent Development, she consults with clients and facilitates programs on topics of leadership development, employee onboarding, change management, high potential development, employee engagement, and women in leadership.
Amy has held multiple management and executive roles in the HR function for public, private and government organizations. In her most recent executive role, she led the organizational development function responsible for company-wide leadership and professional development programs, high potential programs, internal coaching, employee onboarding, talent assessment, succession planning, and employee engagement. A skilled practitioner of Appreciative Inquiry, Amy has designed full-scale summits and integrated Appreciative Inquiry into smaller-scale applications. She is also a Board Certified Coach and uses Emotional Intelligence tools as a core foundation to developing others.
