Kinnogene

                                                                       ----------Exploring what gives life to your organization?

What it is:

Appreciative Inquiry is a popular new approach to organizational change. It makes positive difference in organizational outcome by encouraging people to study, discuss and build on what is working, rather than simply trying to fix what’s not.

It’s assumption is simple: every organization has something that works right – things that give I life when it is most alive, effective, successful and connected in healthy ways to its stakeholders and communities. By discovering and building on the life-giving forces, the organization is able to create a future base on the most nourishing energy.

Appreciative Inquiry  vs. Problem Solving

Appreciative Inquiry is more than a method. It’s a new way of looking at organization with different assumptions than we’ve had since 1930. The old paradigm is based on “deficit” approach. It begins with seeking out the problem, the weak link in the system; it is followed with diagnosis and recommended alternative solutions. Appreciative Inquiry brings a new perspective to challenge the tradition with affirmative approach, embracing, infinite capacity and potential. Observers of Appreciative Inquiry say that it is one of the greatest, yet largely unrecognized model available to the Organizational Development field.

Problem Solving includes the process of Identification of Problem, Analysis of Causes, Analysis of Possible Solutions and Action Planning.In this aspect, organization is a problem to be solved.

While Appreciative Inquiry includes the process of appreciating "valuing the best of what is", envisioning "What Might Be", dialoguing "What Should Be" and innovating "What Will Be".  In this aspect, Organization is a mystery to be embraced.