The Appreciative Inquiry Commons web portal at Case Western Reserve University where Ai was first researched.

This conference session used appreciative inquiry to help people develop their team working, learning and customer service.

This gives an overview of the key ideas and sources for this positive and effective way of enabling change. Thank you, Kendy.

This is a simple way for you to end a workshop. Everyone leaves feeling positive about themselves and has something to treasure, including you.

It is odd that everyone likes to be and feel appreciated and that it is so rewarding to give, yet there is not much about in organisations and families. I give some thoughts on why this happens and some practical things we can do about it.

You tell your story to an interested listener and think about your peak experiences using a simple tool. As a result you learn about your unique talent and what you are on the planet to do. The experience is profound.

This contains a few radical but positive ideas. The most radical may be that we could love politicians and help them rather than criticising and blaming.

This workshop helped a team in Local Government develop their strategy for improving customer care in their Council. They also learned to value each other and how to work well together.

This shows a quick and powerful way to help people connect with their positive core. It also gives a spiritual perspective.

Words create worlds. We can have better lives and make a better world by having different conversations.

This describes a very simple way to be happier and to make other people happier.

Step by step instructions about how to do a core process. Core Process is two words that express a person's unique purpose and talent.

Appreciative questions to explore with your partner. They will help you feel and get closer.

This simple activity helps people appreciate and value their own and others' cultures. They also discover that they can learn from each other.

This short piece proposes that, as we elect politicians to serve us, helping them would be more effective than blaming and criticising them .

The causes of success of technology projects are "soft". They are about the management of the project. Still only 39% of projects succeed.

These questions may change the conversation about Covid-19 from fear to hope

A simple way to build trust and cooperation between people from very different organisations who have to work together.

This short workshop helped people appreciate the strengths of their organisation, build an attractive shared vision and decide how to achieve it.

This simple exercise can have a profound positive effect on participant's confidence in themselves and each other. Joy Knudson describes how she used it to help young mother's grow in self esteem and mutual trust.

How you can use appreciation to be an effective manager and influencer.