Appreciative Team Building: Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best of Your Team

by Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, Jay Cherney

Appreciative Team Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best of Your Team provides your team with everything it needs to discover the keys to past successes and future possibilities. Learn how to enhance your team's performance by igniting engaging conversations. Providing 48 positive questions, sample interview guides, and a step-by-step process for self-managed inquiry, Appreciative Team Building breaks new ground in the development of high performance teams. Choose positive questions on any one of eight topics that are pivotal to high performance and team Clear and shared goals Clear and shared roles and responsibilities Supportive and empowering relationships Clear and shared procedures Nurturing and challenging leadership Evolving energy and spirit Productivity and performance Complete, purposeful and uplifting communicationThen follow a step-by-step self-managed appreciative inquiry process that guides your team-your unique collection of relationships-towards its highest potential.Hear what people are saying about Appreciative Team "This book is full of provocative and positive questions that will develop and enhance your team's performance, yielding faster and better results."-Julie MeiresonneDirector, Customer RelationsHunter Douglas Window Fashions Division, Broomfield, CO"Take time to savor every page of this book. The questions are free and intentionally different. They draw you in, transforming how you and others work together on a day-to-day basis. It is a meaningful contribution to the field. Grab it."-Jane Galloway SeilingSenior Editor, Focus Book Series, The Taos Institute Consultant and Author, The Membership Organization and The Meaning and Role of Organizational Advocacy

Genres: Nonfiction

108 pages, Paperback

First published December 16, 2004

Reviews

[Amanda Trosten-Bloom · Rating 5 out of 5]

Practical, how-to book for applying Appreciative Inquiry to team development. Includes questions and a self-managed guide for team building.

[Dick · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent resource when working with groups.