How an innovative new process — Appreciative Inquiry — can help you leverage the best in your business to build a richer future.
You’ve identified "problems" before, and you’ve "solved" them. Or so you thought. You’ve done the re-organization and the re-engineering. Now you find yourself in a moment of re-evaluation. Perhaps the fix hasn’t worked. Worse, perhaps it has worked on a micro-level, but your efforts have created bigger challenges, and injected new angst. You’re no better off.
More than likely, your business is growing — or you want it to grow. Making it grow will require new initiatives and new change. How can you get a handle around your best opportunities, and go after them? How can you keep your best intentions and best solutions from evolving into the next wave of challenges you’ll face tomorrow?
How can you harness workplace passion and success, and turn it into a catalyst for improvement?
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is an approach to leveraging opportunity that has helped many organizations achieve extraordinary and sustainable results. It is essentially a positive and solution-focused way of building on the best in an organization. AI attempts to focus organizations and the individuals driving improvement on first affirming their strengths — rather than narrowly focusing on their weaknesses. In the process, it magnifies the team’s collective intelligence, energy, freedom, and commitment — to help it achieve vital results.
For organizations with an essentially positive and motivational culture — or for teams looking to build such a culture — AI techniques can reframe the classic "problem solving" approach into a continuously more positive and reinforcing experience.
How can Lazorpoint help?
We help companies untangle the thorny workplace issues that exist in every organization, so that the focus can return to what drives the business. Where it has promise, we use Appreciative Inquiry as an approach to help create a better workplace. A workplace that seeks out opportunities for improvement and innovation, energizes and excites employees, and returns focus to customers, profits, and growth.
Our strength is our team of seasoned and successful executives who’ve walked in your shoes. Our professionals have held senior-most HR positions at companies including TRW, Kraft Foods, Frito-Lay, Lucent, Cleveland Cliffs, M.A. Hanna and a host of other smaller but equally important organizations. Many have worked with the pioneers in organizational improvement techniques, such as Appreciative Inquiry. Our team can help you determine not only what has to be done. More, they can lead you through getting it done—to the positive results you value.
Let’s have some conversation about your situation. The positive nature of the Appreciative Inquiry approach, and the dialog that evolves from it, may in itself energize and uplift the organization. Working together, we can help you to harness the positive essence of your organization and its employees — to produce the business results you deserve.
Use Appreciative Inquiry to strengthen your workplace initiatives including:
- Strategic Change
- Core Business Redesign
- Quality, Surveys and Culture Change
- Customer Partnerships
- Labor-Management Relations
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Transformation of Measurements
- Knowledge Exchange
