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I recently used the cards with the CIO Board of a large international company about to embark on a new IT strategy that essentially involves cultural change in the organization, and in their relationship with the organization. This is the first time I have used them.
The board is a relatively new team.
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Posted in Change, Organisational Development, Positive Psychology Concept Cards, Team Development |
Ways to use Positive Psychology Concept Cards: Ten ideas to get you started
General
You can use these cards in a number of ways to stimulate discussion; create commonality and motivation; and to identify agreed action. Some general ideas are:
- Use the cards as they stand, the questions and the action points
- Use a rating scale ‘To what extent is this present in our team/organization/group at the moment on a scale of 1-10? What would we like to be? How can we move towards this?’etc.
- As a prioritizing tool. ‘Which five of these are most key to our future success/our development/our strategy?’
- As playing cards. Each person has some. Someone starts by laying down a card they think is important (to the topic under discussion) explaining why they think so, the person who thinks they can build on this with one of the cards in their hand lays it down with ‘yes and…’. This is a cooperative card game, with no winners or losers.
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Posted in Appreciative Inquiry, Change, Organisational Development, Positive Psychology Concept Cards, Strengths, Team Development |
Introducing the Positive Psychology Concept Cards
The concepts reflect key findings from positive psychology research of things that make a positive difference to organisational life. Each card lists the benefits of the concept, provides three questions to stimulate discussion, and is followed by three pointers for development. Each is introduced briefly below, arranged in four groups.
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I recently met Dr. Gervase R. Bushe (Professor of Leadership and Organisational Development at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Frasier University, Vancouver), a leading expert on Appreciative Inquiry and associate with numerous consulting groups, as well as author of ‘Clear Leadership: Sustaining Real Collaboration and Partnership at Work’ (Davies Black: London), and gave him a copy of my book. He was very complimentary and gracious enough to send me an endorsement which I have included below.
Endorsement of ‘Positive Psychology at Work: How Positive Leadership and Appreciative Inquiry Create Inspiring Organizations’. By Sarah Lewis, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Reviewed by Gervase R. Bushe
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Tags: ai, appreciating change, appreciative enquiry, appreciative inquiry, endorsement, gervase bushe, gervase r. bushe, leadership, management, positive psychology, positive psychology at work, psychology, sarah lewis
Posted in Positive Psychology |
Barack Obama famously crowd-sourced the finance for his election campaign, a powerful example of the ability of new technology to create a great aggregate result out of lots of small voluntary actions. But this process is not as new as it seems: Sir James Murray used a similar approach to creating the Oxford English Dictionary, a project he began in 1897.
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Tags: acting appreciatively, ai, ai at work, appreciating change, appreciative enquiry, appreciative inquiry, business psychology, crowd sourcing, employee engagement, facilitation, large group change, positive co-creation, positive psychology, positive psychology at work, practical positive psychology, psychology, sarah lewis, volunteer principle
Posted in Appreciative Inquiry |
At the WAIC I co-presented a symposium with four other people from three other countries: France, Denmark and Holland. We also originally had a sixth partner from Greece, but the economic situation there meant he had to drop out – another story. In preparing for our presentation across time and country borders, I learnt something about the realities of virtual team working!
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Tags: acting appreciatively, ai at work, appreciating change, business psychology, ghent, psychology, sarah lewis, team working, virtual teams, world ai congress, world appreciative inquiry congress
Posted in Team Development |
At the recent WAIC conference I fell into conversation with Stefan Cantore. Stefan is busy thinking about ‘our love affair with problems’ in preparation for writing a chapter for a forthcoming publication (details at end). We had a great discussion about this that stayed with me and caused me further thought.
How do we know when we encounter a problem? While completing a personality profile questionnaire recently I noticed that I have a problem with the word problem. As the questionnaire asked me variations on how I deal with problems, I struggled to answer: the questions just didn’t connect. It would seem that just don’t think in terms of problems and problem-solving: I don’t notice when I encounter them.
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Posted in Appreciative Inquiry |
At a conference attended by over 500 people from 42 nations, with 9 keynotes by names like David Cooperrider, Diane Whitney, Ken Gergen, Gervase Bushe and Ron Fry, and innumerable workshop sessions and poster presentations, my experience of the conference could only ever be partial. Here are some of the best bits for me.
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Posted in Appreciative Inquiry, Leadership |
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Research over the last twenty years that confirmed that two of the most important predictors of success in life are intelligence and willpower (or self control). We now know a number of important things about willpower:
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Tags: business psychology, discipline, leadership, management, positive psychology, positive psychology at work, psychology, research, sarah lewis, self-control, willpower
Posted in Positive Psychology, Research |
