Positive Change Methods: Appreciative Inquiry and More

Positive Change Methods: Appreciative Inquiry and More

A podcast about Appreciative Inquiry and related approaches to change, with Andy Smith. Practical tips in each episode!

Episodes

How to Ask Generative Questions

September 27, 2025 • 12 mins
Appreciative Inquiry talks a lot about generative questions - but what are they? What do they do? And how to ask them successfully? Find out in this episode of the Positive Change Methods Podcast
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Conversations Worth Having with Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres

September 10, 2025 • 46 mins
Exploring the transformative world of Appreciative Inquiry with Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres, authors of 'Conversations Worth Having'. Learn how to ask generative questions and frame conversations positively to foster collaboration and growth in your personal and professional life. Plus, the importance of curiosity, and how to avoid toxic positivity! Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm24
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Unlocking Innovation in the NHS with Appreciative Inquiry - Interview with Wendy Burton

August 14, 2025 • 28 mins
Interview with Wendy Burton, who's been using Appreciative Inquiry in the NHS in conjunction with Lean and Design Thinking to help improve processes and turn around struggling teams. Lots of useful tips and insights applicable beyond coaching in healthcare! Shownotes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm23 (includes transcript)
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What Happens in the Dream Stage of Appreciative Inquiry?

August 7, 2025 • 7 mins
When you're creating a vision of the ideal future with a team, or even a whole organisation, wouldn't it be great if they could get free of the constraints of past problems and limits? That's what the Dream stage of Appreciative Inquiry's 5-D format is designed to do. Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm22
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How to Engage People With 'Technical' Appreciative Inquiry Topics

July 23, 2025 • 5 mins
Many business processes, essential as they are, don’t in themselves make the heart beat faster. How can we use Appreciative Inquiry to stimulate generative thinking about topics that are hard to engage with emotionally? Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm21
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How to Handle Negative Feelings in Appreciative Interviews

July 17, 2025 • 6 mins
How do you conduct appreciative interviews with people who are feeling negative, or who are going through a tough time? This episode has some tips for doing the interviews sensitively, and for handling ‘negativity’ or cynicism from the interviewee. Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm20
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2 Ways To Identify Themes From Appreciative Interviews

July 7, 2025 • 8 mins
So your group have done their appreciative interviews with each other - now, how do they identify the themes emerging from them? This episode is a deep dive the into practicalities of facilitating an Appreciative Inquiry process, starting with a small-group appreciative team development session and including tips for scaling up to larger groups. Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm19
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3 Ways to Use Appreciative Interviews to Identify Success Enablers

July 1, 2025 • 6 mins
Appreciative interviews are a great way to find what's working so you can do more of it. Here are three ways you can use them Show notes at https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm18
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How to Make Your Appreciative Interviews Business-Friendly

June 21, 2025 • 6 mins
There are various formats for appreciative interviews in the Appreciative Inquiry textbooks - this one works nicely for business. Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm17
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Appreciative Interviews

June 16, 2025 • 10 mins
Appreciative interviews - what they are, why we do them, and what you need to know to make them work. Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm16
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The Discovery Stage: What You Need to Do BEFORE You Plan Any Change

June 5, 2025 • 5 mins
What should you do BEFORE you plan any change? Discover what's already working! Find out how to conduct Appreciative Inquiry's Discovery stage. Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm15
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Problem to Possibility: Positive Change Methods Podcast Episode 14

May 28, 2025 • 6 mins
The 'Problem to Possibility Exercise' - how to get a problem-focused team to move on to desired solutions and accept an appreciative approach. Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm14
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Affirmative Topics the Easy Way: Positive Change Methods Podcast Episode 13

May 20, 2025 • 10 mins
In this week's episode, a checklist for a well-defined affirmative topic, plus the easy way to flip problem statements to affirmative topics
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The Definition Stage: Positive Change Methods Podcast Ep. 12

May 13, 2025 • 6 mins
What you need at the start of an Appreciative Inquiry project, and why you need to flip problem statements into affirmative topics
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The 5-D Format: Positive Change Methods Podcast Ep. 11

May 6, 2025 • 9 mins
A quick overview of the most-used format for structuring an Appreciative Inquiry process, the 5-D Format. Plus, why it's so great!
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The Free Choice Principle: Positive Change Methods Podcast Ep. 10

April 28, 2025 • 4 mins
Appreciative Inquiry's Free Choice Principle: why organisations thrive when people are treated as volunteers
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The Enactment Principle: Positive Change Methods Podcast Ep. 9

April 21, 2025 • 5 mins
How Appreciative Inquiry’s ‘Enactment Principle’ is vital for successful change + why it's not the same as ‘Fake it till you make it’
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The Wholeness Principle: Positive Change Methods Podcast Ep. 8

April 15, 2025 • 8 mins
Appreciative Inquiry's 'Wholeness Principle' - the easy way to engage people, get past 'groupthink', and make decisions more robust
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‘The Inquiry Is the Intervention’: The Simultaneity Principle – Positive Change Methods Podcast Ep. 7

April 9, 2025 • 8 mins
Appreciative Inquiry's 'Simultaneity Prinicple' - a radically different way of thinking about change and how quickly it can happen!
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‘Positive Questions Lead to Positive Change’: the Positive Principle – Positive Change Methods Podcast Ep. 6

April 3, 2025 • 5 mins
Appreciative Inquiry's 'Positive Principle' - the 'Paradox of Change', why most large-scale change initiatives fail, how positive emotions improve decision-making and productivity, and practical steps you can take to put the Positive Principle into action and improve your work (and life) right now
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