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Appreciative Inquiry: what it is and how it works

By Steve Philips (October 2004 Issue)
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For anyone who was hoping to find out more about their favourite subject of Artificial Insemination or Artificial Intelligence it is probably worth pointing out now that you may be reading the wrong article. While Appreciative Inquiry, or AI as it is often referred to, comes with some jargon that doesn’t do it justice, it does offer a superbly simple, versatile and positive philosophy to anyone involved in developing individuals, teams and organisations.

AI is mainly a philosophy of development and, to a lesser degree, a method for development. The philosophy leads to some practical approaches, but these are not prescriptive or exhaustive and are just the first stepping-stones to use in finding your own way of applying AI.

While some of the given jargon of AI is used here for consistency, you may find that you do not need to use it or that you prefer to replace it with plainer English in your own work.

 

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