AI PractitionerPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-10
Christine Cayré
{"title":"Appreciative Inquiry at a Hospital: A Long Way to Move the Lines","authors":"Christine Cayré","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-10","url":null,"abstract":"Although the world of healthcare has shown a great interest in Appreciative Inquiry, structural rigidities that hold back its development persist. A healthcare manager shares her experience: an interview with Isabelle Djabri, Healthcare Manager at University Hospital of Montpellier, conducted by Christine Cayré.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116085029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-6
Jean Pagès
{"title":"Using Appreciative Inquiry at a Very Touchy Time: An Interview with Craig Walker, Food Company Managing Director","authors":"Jean Pagès","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-6","url":null,"abstract":"Craig Walker’s career as a managing director has included such food companies as MerAlliance (Thai Union Group PCL), after Labeyrie Fine Foods (CEO UK) and, before that, NUMICO INFANT NUTRITION (brands: Milupa Nutricia). Craig recounts for author Jean Pagès a positive experience resulting from a company sale which used Appreciative Inquiry to ensure that the company was fully engaged.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115971503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-20
Hélène Haeck, Jacinthe Bergevin, Josée Blaquière
{"title":"The Harmony Project: The Appreciative Inquiry Approach Shaking Up Management Practices","authors":"Hélène Haeck, Jacinthe Bergevin, Josée Blaquière","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-20","url":null,"abstract":"How could we not be discouraged when, as soon as we proposed the Appreciative Inquiry approach, we faced a wall of resistance that created pressure to fall back on a more traditional problem-solving approach familiar to all? How could we give our clients the confidence to dare to go in search of dreams to improve efficiency and the work climate on construction sites? Small-scale experimentation, patience and generous listening and mutual respect made all the difference in the story.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130665604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-4
Zineb Benabdejlil
{"title":"The Massira 2010 Project at Lyonnaise des Eaux of Casablanca (Lydec)","authors":"Zineb Benabdejlil","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-4","url":null,"abstract":"In 1997, Morocco’s authorities chose professional service provider Lyonnaise des Eaux to resolve the problems with the provision of water and electricity in Casablanca. Ten years later, faced with a review, they found that projects hadn’t been documented. In preparing for a difficult review, the management neglected internal communications. Faced with a demoralized team, Jaouad Benhaddou turned to Zineb Benabdejlil who proposed using Appreciative Inquiry to find a positive way forward for the organisation. Zineb asked Jaouad to recount the experience for this article.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124256850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-18
Paul G. Crismer
{"title":"When a Shift in the Approach Makes Sense","authors":"Paul G. Crismer","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-18","url":null,"abstract":"In 2012, following the subprime mortgage crisis, the Dexia group, a Franco- Belgian financial institution, was dismantled. Sybille van Steenberghe, people management director of Dexia at the time, was tasked with finding a way to make sense of having a career in a company destined to close.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124098153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-8
Jean Pagès
{"title":"Patricia’s Story: Living Appreciative Inquiry","authors":"Jean Pagès","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-8","url":null,"abstract":"Patricia Sennequier talks to Jean Pagès about what Appreciative Inquiry means to her and how it has helped heal certain wounds and given her confidence in her coaching.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126390656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-2
Jean Pagès
{"title":"Appreciative Inquiry: The Movement of Living, Season 2","authors":"Jean Pagès","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-2","url":null,"abstract":"In the bilingual February 2023 issue of AI Practitioner, French-speaking practitioners and consultants interviewed each other, recalling difficulties encountered and solutions found by breaking out of the usual problem-solving ways of thinking. In this issue, they interview their clients to record their perceptions of and experiences with Appreciative Inquiry.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"192 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135150990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-14
Jean Pagès
{"title":"An Encounter with Jean-Christophe Barralis: Appreciative Inquiry and Vitality","authors":"Jean Pagès","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-56-4-14","url":null,"abstract":"Jean-Christophe Barralis describes, for Jean Pagès, his first encounter with Appreciative Inquiry and how he rediscovered, through shared storytelling, a liberating lightness and resonance that remains with him even today, years later.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123701390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-6
R. Heath
{"title":"Giving Voice to Nature: Inviting Gluskabe and the Water Monster into the Room","authors":"R. Heath","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-6","url":null,"abstract":"This case study explores the experience and challenges associated with giving voice to the more-than-human world in a public dialogue focused on water sustainability. Grounded in the Appreciative Inquiry Poetic and Wholeness principles, students from the University of New Hampshire collaborated with local Indigenous residents to design and facilitate a public dialogue anchored in storytelling.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117281928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI PractitionerPub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-16
Vera Hofmann
{"title":"Ecotones: Getting Inspired by Nature in the Way We Gather, Learn and Innovate","authors":"Vera Hofmann","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-55-7-16","url":null,"abstract":"We are part of nature, not separate from it. Allowing ourselves and others to not only understand this cognitively but feel it, so we can act accordingly, has become ever more vital. Ecotones are a wonderful concept that can help us create this awareness and facilitate decision-making. In this article we explore how.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125408121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}