Change Management Consultant .. Appreciative Inquiry Process to Increase Employee Motivation by Empowerment. Increase productivity of your team with Strategic Change Management Training, Seminar, Workshop or Business Review Change Management Tool.

Traditional Change Management is based on problem solving. This is a negative approach that is consistent with command and control thinking in old management books that sees people as interchangeable parts.

Businesses that want the agility to survive in today’s turbulent economy must use innovative skills to attract the best talent, inspire an ownership perspective, reduce burnout, reduce turnover and to optimize the return on their labor dollar expenditures. Successful organizations will have an employee centered culture, they will be the employers of choice. Appreciative Inquiry is a strength based approach to strategic change management that focuses and builds on what is working to achieve positive results.

This positive and inclusive process is widely known in academic circles, but not widely known yet in management circles. There is little documented information because Appreciative Inquiry is a collaborative change management process rather than a strictly by the books approach. It is an ongoing work in progress, constantly being created by the people who use it.

The process works and is currently being used by Roadway, Green Mountain Coffee, The U.S. Navy and others. You are encouraged to learn more about Appreciative Inquiry at websites like http://ai.cwru.edu and http://aiconsulting.org.

Cannon Advantage has been studying and working in Appreciative Inquiry since 2002. It is a fascinating process that we have used for strategic planning, decision-making, customer service, new product introductions and much more. Employee motivation and empowerment are vital to achieving business objectives in today's environment. Cannon Advantage uses Appreciative Inquiry as a Change Management tool to increase productivity.

Please give us a call at (866) 598-8450 to schedule a Change Management Workshop or to learn more about how we can use Appreciative Inquiry in change management training in your organization to increase team productivity.

Bob Cannon has been awarded a certificate in “Appreciative Inquiry: Igniting positive Change In Business & Society” from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.

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Next time, start the meeting by asking the participants in the meeting to relate something good that has happened to them since the last meeting. This forces everyone to think of something positive and different than his or her original thoughts for the meeting. It also puts everyone in a more appreciative mindset before getting into the specifics of the meeting. Try it and see for yourself if your meetings aren’t more productive.