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What is appreciative enquiry? Appreciative Inquiry focuses on the positive!  It works on the principle that what is good now that can be built on to achieve a vision for the future. When thinking about change people often focus on what is wrong now – what is deficient. This has been the traditional approach to making a change. Appreciative Inquiry starts the other way round.  It looks at what is good and valuable now. What is good now can be the foundation on which to build moving forward. Once the foundation is established you can explore the future possibilities. And you can do it with much greater confidence. All change In all change, something will be lost but with Appreciative Inquiry you can make sure that much of what is good remains.  People can honour the past and have confidence in the future! Appreciative Inquiry was developed as a tool for changing organizations. But it works very well for individual people and teams.  They can approach change with greater confidence. If y

Image via Wikipedia My last post said that with practice you can learn to think positively and confidently about making changes.  You   can develop a resilient mindset.  This post takes this further and offers help! People with inborn talent may be good at what they do—but experience shows that only the mentally tough reach the highest plateaus in their field. Mental toughness is something anyone can learn. Director of mental training for the St. Louis Cardinals and a top-tier executive coach, Dr. Jason Selk knows everything there is to know about developing mental toughness! Inspired on the vision of legendary basketball coach John Wooden , Dr Selk has developed a program that is as simple as it is effective. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy. You will have to put effort in if you are serious about being successful.   But this is a great way to build up your mental “muscles.”  Dr Selk provides hands-on daily exercises for breaking old, self-defeating patterns of behaviour.