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Your team gets together and before you know it, the conversation is about what is going wrong. In this in-company training, you learn to shift the focus from problems to what is already working using Appreciative Inquiry. The training consists of two half-days for 6 to 12 participants, in Dutch or English.
The meeting starts with a round of updates, and within ten minutes it is about what is not working. Someone sighs, someone else adds to it, and the good ideas you brought with you stay in your notebook.
You notice the atmosphere drops as soon as the conversation gets stuck on problems. You want to turn it around, but you do not know how to do that without sounding like you are dismissing the problems.
Many teams get stuck in what is not working:
Every team has more potential than it shows in a busy week. Appreciative Inquiry gives you a practical method to change the dynamics in your team.
Problems demand attention, and so it naturally goes there. But whoever starts every meeting with what went wrong, trains a team to mainly see mistakes.
That costs energy. People prefer to keep their ideas to themselves, meetings feel heavy and motivation slowly fades away. You carry that with you too, as a colleague or as a manager who has to lift the conversation up time and again.
It does not have to stay that way. You can investigate what a team is good at just as purposefully as what goes wrong.
A positive outlook is not a matter of character. It is a way of asking questions, and you can learn that.
Our coaches know the moment when a conversation gets stuck. In the training, you work with Appreciative Inquiry and the 5D cycle: Define, Discover, Dream, Design and Destiny. This gives your team a fixed path from what already works to what it wants to achieve.
In two half-days you practise appreciative questions and apply the cycle to issues from your own work. You go home with a concrete plan, and with the skills from the list below.
After the training you can:
The training consists of two half-days.
Every training is extended in the THOC Leerruimte. Your material remains available and you get an AI Coach who knows the lesson.
We work in an experience-oriented way: you constantly work with the theory in practical exercises that resemble real situations.
Our coaches can give this training. Do you want to unlock the positive energy in your team? Tell us where the conversation is currently getting stuck, and we will tailor the cases to that.
For managers and teams who want to work on a positive company culture, based on trust, appreciation and common goals. It is an in-company training, so you work with real issues from your own working environment.
Two half-days. The first is about the basic principles, the 5D cycle and appreciative questions. The second is about application and implementation, with practical cases and securing change.
With six to twelve participants per group, so that everyone can work on the cases in small groups. The training is available in Dutch and in English. Let us know which language your team prefers.
Every training is tailored, so we work with a quote after we have heard your request. If you want to combine this with other skills, request a tailored training.
Problem analysis looks for what goes wrong. Appreciative Inquiry starts from what already works and asks appreciative questions, so that the conversation gives energy. You practise that in the 5D cycle, from defining to determining next steps.
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