Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Conversations can be critical and destructive, or they can be generative and productive. This book shows how to guarantee your conversations will help people, organizations, and communities flourish.

Conversations are at the core of how we interact. We all know that conversations influence us, but we rarely stop to think about how much impact they have on our well-being and our ability to thrive. This book shows how Appreciative Inquiry (AI)--one of the most widely used new approaches for fostering positive change for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities--can help everyone communicate better and flourish in all areas of their lives. Stavros and Torres spell out 2 practices and 5 principles to create great conversations. Each chapter is built around real-life stories of people using these practices and principles to strengthen relationships and generate possibilities for a future that works for everyone.

• The Appreciative Inquiry Handbook: For Leaders of Change
• Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change
• The Designing for Growth Field Book: A Step-by-Step Project Guide (Columbia Business School Publishing)
• Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization
• The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry
• Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A Leadership Journey through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness
• Thin Book of SOAR: Creating Strategy That Inspires Innovation and Engagement
• The Thin Book of SOAR; Building Strengths-Based Strategy
• Encyclopedia of Positive Questions, 2nd Ed.
• The Power of Character Strengths: Appreciate and Ignite Your Positive Personality