Appreciative Enquiry – AI – is an exciting alternative approach to organizational change developed by two American organization behavior professors, David L. Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva.In the usual change management model, management thinking is generally based around looking for and fixing problems.  In AI, the focus is identifying what works well in the organization, understanding what is behind that, and doing more of it. The purpose of this is to allow this positive energy to spread throughout the organization or team or unit. AI creates an environment where more and more focus is applied to finding the previously unknown and unrecognized areas of good practice, and enabling the rest of the organization in a similar way…

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