AI PractitionerPub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-5
Jacinthe Bergevin, Zineb Benabdejlil
{"title":"When Our Old Habits Take Over!","authors":"Jacinthe Bergevin, Zineb Benabdejlil","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-5","url":null,"abstract":"Adopting the Appreciative Inquiry approach in an organisational process requires practitioners to put aside specific mental models acquired during their education and professional training. Despite their goodwill, some people may be tempted to return to more traditional tools or exercises that are well-established in their way of doing things.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126232533","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 : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-15
Dominique Sauzet, Jean Pagès
{"title":"Appreciative Inquiry: A Transformational Practice and Philosophy","authors":"Dominique Sauzet, Jean Pagès","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-15","url":null,"abstract":"In this conversation, Dominique Sauzet talks about his professional practice: Appreciative Inquiry is finding a growing place, not only in terms of methodology but more and more as a transformative energy that colours all of his work. He relates this process and its power by illustrating it with characteristic examples.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121563336","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 : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-11
Zineb Benabdejlil, Patricia Sennequier
{"title":"Using Appreciative Inquiry to Carve Your ‘Coach and Change-Maker’ Stone","authors":"Zineb Benabdejlil, Patricia Sennequier","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-54-0-11","url":null,"abstract":"This approach allows us to open up to what is beautiful and connected to the life momentum of a person or an organisation. We must embody it; this comes with experience, by growing with it.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133073740","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 : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-9
Florence Delacour Le Petit
{"title":"A Possible Pathway to the C-Suite for Every Woman","authors":"Florence Delacour Le Petit","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-9","url":null,"abstract":"This case study describes how appreciative questions were used to address a need for the topic of gender diversity in the banking industry, in particular at the C-suite level. From September to December 2021, Appreciative Inquiry principles were used in the development of a transformational change process within a managers’ group, comprised of women and men, as well as with individuals. With this in mind, a new program in favour of sustainable gender diversity emerged: C-level, a potential pathway for every woman.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127828592","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 : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-8
M. Martín, Ilene C. Wasserman
{"title":"Rewiring the Leadership Mindset for a Preferred Future in a Post-Covid World","authors":"M. Martín, Ilene C. Wasserman","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-8","url":null,"abstract":"We are living through one of the most turbulent times in history, in the vortex of the intersection of the impacts of a pandemic, climate change acceleration and political polarization at a global level. Now, more than ever, all that we have learned in our work around creating equity, leveraging diversity and fostering inclusive cultures provides the foundational curriculum for dealing with this turbulent state. ‘Sustainable equity’ provides a framework for leaders who care about doing the right thing for their employees, their organizations and communities.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127123739","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 : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-11
Tracy Brala, Kristy Traylor, Ilene C. Wasserman, Jeff Branch
{"title":"Innovation that Leverages DEI and Heals Community Collaboration","authors":"Tracy Brala, Kristy Traylor, Ilene C. Wasserman, Jeff Branch","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-11","url":null,"abstract":"The Science Center in Philidelphia, USA has been around for 60 years. In recent years the Science Center has elevated its commitment to look at diversity, equity and inclusivity in a systemic way. This article focuses on the Science Center’s engagement with ICW Consulting Group at the intersection of DEI, strategy and culture. This engagement is informed by a strengths-based approach and the principles of Appreciative Inquiry.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114334391","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 : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-4
Sharon Thompson-Tan
{"title":"Breakdowns and Breakthroughs of Intercultural JEDI Work in a Non-Profit Global Organisation","authors":"Sharon Thompson-Tan","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-4","url":null,"abstract":"The author, one of a group of consultants working with a non-profit organisation based in North America in the area of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion found that their breakthrough came when they began to adopt an Appreciative Inquiry approach to the work.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122917120","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 : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-13
Ada Sharpe, Avini Dixit, Sadip Raj Pandey, Leizl Agad
{"title":"Futures for Youth by Youth: How Dreams of a Better Future Inspired a Youth Movement to Protect the Bagmati River","authors":"Ada Sharpe, Avini Dixit, Sadip Raj Pandey, Leizl Agad","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-13","url":null,"abstract":"Investment in young people’s human, social and cultural capital is critical to achieving the UN’s sustainable development goals. How can we empower them to participate in development policies and practices to reach their fullest potential, maximizing their contribution to a better future for all? This paper centers around a story of youth inclusion and leadership to protect the Bagmati River that flows through the Kathmandu valley of Nepal.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116398000","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 : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-5
Jeanie Cockell, J. McArthur-Blair
{"title":"Navigating Privilege as We DO and BE Appreciative Inquiry","authors":"Jeanie Cockell, J. McArthur-Blair","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-5","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the topics of privilege from the perspective of two lesbian AI practitioners living on the west coast of Canada. Where does their privilege lie? Where do they face a lack of privilege in their lives? How has it impacted their responses – and their work as practitioners?","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127000873","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 : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-14
Guillaume Laurie
{"title":"How to Create Learning Communities to Increase Inclusion in Higher Education Using Appreciative Inquiry","authors":"Guillaume Laurie","doi":"10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12781/978-1-907549-53-3-14","url":null,"abstract":"In 2016, Kedge Business School in France sent two of its instructional designers, Olga Boura and Guillaume Laurie, on an Appreciative Inquiry course. Combining AI with their existing skills, they created a special one-day icebreaker course to welcome their students and create the conditions students would need to enhance their social development.","PeriodicalId":298552,"journal":{"name":"AI Practitioner","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113978510","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}