Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry at Northern Essex Community College.
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) provides a foundation for much of our work at NECC and with a team of staff and faculty trained in AI, we are committed to providing resources, training and workshops to the college community.
What Is Appreciative Inquiry?
- Appreciative Inquiry is an innovative approach to organizational learning. AI is an organization development model for facilitating positive change in human systems, organizations, groups and communities.
- The assumption underlying AI is simple; every human system (person/community) has a core of strengths that is often hidden and/or underutilized—what is known as its positive core.
- AI searches for and finds the positive core
- When the positive core is revealed and tapped into, it provides a sustainable source of positive energy that nourishes personal and organization change.
How Is AI Used at NECC?
You may be interested in using AI to facilitate change for a particular group, develop a team, a department or committee, or you may just want to learn more about how AI principles might work.
Here are some examples of where and how AI may be utilized:
- Professional Development
- In the Classroom
- Workshops
- Advisory Boards
- Alumni Groups
- Academic Master Plan
- Team Building
- Strategic Planning
- New Project Startups
AI Trained Facilitators at NECC
- Melba Acevedo
- Noemi Custodia-Lora
- Jayne Ducharme
- Tina Favara
- Sharon McManus
- Theresa Mullin
- Dawna Perez
- Kathy Ronaldson
- Stephen Russell
- Marcy Yeager
- Lane Glenn, President
More Information
For more information about Appreciative Inquiry or to request a workshop for your work area, please contact Sharon McManus, Center for Professional Development, at smcmanus@necc.mass.edu or at 978-738-7803.
To learn more about the Institutional Planning and Research of AI, please visit the Appreciative Inquiry Commons and/or New Paradigm Consulting.
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