Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A Leadership Journey through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness - Softcover

Mcarthur-Blair, Joan; Cockell, Jeanie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1523082550 ISBN 13: 9781523082551

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

Journey through hope, despair, and forgiveness

Leaders cannot predict the complex challenges they are called on to face. Veteran consultants Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell show that Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is an invaluable tool to build resilience.

AI is a widely used change approach that emphasizes identifying what's working well in a system. Leaders can use AI to increase their ability to weather the storms they'll inevitably encounter and be resilient. A profound guide, this book features personal accounts from leaders across a variety of settings describing how they've practiced appreciative resilience in the ongoing cycle of hope, despair, and forgiveness.

About this title

About the Author

Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell, copresidents of Cockell McArthur-Blair Consulting, specialize in designing strategies to surface the wisdom of individuals, groups, and organizations to build positive futures. They are the coauthors of Appreciative Inquiry in Higher Education: A Transformative Force and many articles on leadership and AI.
Advanced Education as Project Officer leading a large provincial project.

Foreword by David Cooperrider, Distinguished University Professor, Case Western Reserve University &
Honorary Chair, The David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry Champlain College

Edition details

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1523082550
• ISBN 13: 9781523082551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256