Practical Appreciative Inquiry: How to Use This Leading-Edge Coaching Method Confidently with Teams and Small Groups

by Andy Smith

Do you love the idea of Appreciative Inquiry, but you’re not sure how you would put it into practice? This book is the step-by-step guide to get you started using it confidently with teams and small groups.

Author Andy Smith has over 15 years’ experience of facilitating Appreciative Inquiry processes. He has trained hundreds of people in how to put the theory of Appreciative Inquiry into practice – now let him share with you practical tips and formats for implementing each stage of the process.

In this book you’ll discover a practical, scalable process that you can use

- Structure a team coaching session that will change thinking and generate results

- Quickly get diverse groups talking freely to each other

- Get everyone collaborating on creating a shared vision

- Unleash the creativity of everyone in the team to generate new ideas

- Get from vision to action plan in less than two hours, with an engaging, participative method that involves the whole team...

Plus the book gives you a clear explanation of the principles that underpin Appreciative Inquiry and – crucially – how to apply them in practice.

There’s also a summary of more recent discoveries in neuroscience that explain why Appreciative Inquiry works so well – and which every coach, leader, and change agent needs to know about.



Buy Practical Appreciative Inquiry and get started using this leading-edge change method today.

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Published January 2, 2025

About the author

Andy Smith is an Appreciative Inquiry facilitator, Emotional Intelligence consultant, and NLP trainer based in the UK and working worldwide. He has been assisting individuals and groups with accelerated change for 25 years.

His experience includes IT consultancy, stress management and corporate branding. He is the author of Practical Coaching With Appreciative Inquiry (Coaching Leaders 2025), Achieve Your Goals: Strategies To Transform Your Life (Dorling Kindersley 2006), and The Trainer's Pack of NLP Exercises (Coaching Leaders 2010).

Andy is accredited to administer the Goleman/Boyatzis Emotional and Social Competence Inventory (ESCI™) 360º assessment. He is a professional member of the Association for NLP.

He has provided executive coaching, team facilitation and training in emotional intelligence to a client list which includes the National School of Government, Biffa, GlaxoSmithKline UK, the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Volvo Trucks Malaysia, Manchester City Council, and the NHS.